Ex-missionary volunteer blows the whistle on 'Mother Teresa'

[Cyberman]

You speak of "The Missionary Position". No, I've not read it wither, but I believe he mentions it in "God Is Not Great" if I remember rightly. He does relate an episode in 1969 in which the journalist, Mother Teresa fanboy and ex-spy Malcolm Muggeridge travelled to Calcutta to make his film documentary "Something Beautiful for God". Footage filmed in MT's Home for the Dying and elsewhere was thought unusable due to poor lighting. However, upon reviewing the footage, Muggeridge was amazed to see the rooms suffused with a mystical light which lit every detail to perfection. He instantly declared it to be a miracle; his cameraman Kenneth MacMillan was no lessed impressed, though his sentiments lay less with any divine intervention than with the new Kodak low-light film stock he'd used.

The Hitch also mentions another so-called miracle, which also forms part of this article he penned for Slate.com in 2003:

As for the “miracle” that had to be attested, what can one say? Surely any respectable Catholic cringes with shame at the obviousness of the fakery. A Bengali woman named Monica Besra claims that a beam of light emerged from a picture of MT, which she happened to have in her home, and relieved her of a cancerous tumor. Her physician, Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, says that she didn’t have a cancerous tumor in the first place and that the tubercular cyst she did have was cured by a course of prescription medicine. Was he interviewed by the Vatican’s investigators? No. (As it happens, I myself was interviewed by them but only in the most perfunctory way. The procedure still does demand a show of consultation with doubters, and a show of consultation was what, in this case, it got.)

You might also like to check out the Penn & Teller videos about the old fraud.