Mother Theresa

I really want to read Come Be My Light, the collection of Mother Theresa's letters chronicling her experience of spiritual desolation. It'll be a while, I can't afford to buy a new copy at the moment, but I'm aching to read it.

I have to say, I feel a tiny bit the voyeur, peering into the soul of someone who wanted her private correspondence destroyed. I feel uncomfortable with the release of those letters, against her wishes. A throwaway detail in the Time article on this subject, that has not left my mind.

Her confessors are making her private thoughts public. Is this wrong?

Does a utilitarian calculation justify this violation of her wishes? Come Be My Light can guide and comfort untold numbers of people who struggle with apiritual aridity and doubt. Does this value counterbalance the breach of confidence in an ethical calculation?

Whatever your opinion, she done gone to Glory, none of this is on her mind. I confess that I desire this insight into the soul of a great woman, I want to read it, like a craving.