Mother Teresa of Calcuta's privite journals and letters are about to be published under the title Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. Exerpts appeared in the the August 23 issue of Time from which we learned that Mother Teresa spent the last decades of her life in an agonizing feeling of separation from God. In a New York Times editorial, James Martin, SJ, comments about her struggle:

Mother Teresa’s “dark night” was of a different magnitude, lasting for decades. It is almost unparalleled in the lives of the saints. In time, with the aid of the priest who acted as her spiritual director, Mother Teresa concluded that these painful experiences could help her identify not only with the abandonment that Jesus Christ felt during the crucifixion, but also with the abandonment that the poor faced daily.

Read the rest of Martin's comments here.