SOUND OFF: A MOTHER’S LETTERS
September 16, 2007 – 7:10 pm | by Beni | 135 views
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Penney Adams of Columbus, Ohio, couldn’t help being troubled by a recent issue of Time that featured Mother Teresa on its cover. In an article about the publication of her letters, in which she confessed her spiritual doubts, Adams read that “she had requested that (the letters) be destroyed, but was overruled by her church.” (Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith)
How ethical was it, Adams wondered, for the church not to destroy the letters? How ethical was it to let the letters be published? Knowing that Mother Teresa did not want her letters read by anyone else, would you read her published letters? Finally, knowing that some of her letters would be excerpted in the Time article, would it even be right to read the article about them?
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Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business (Smith Kerr, 2006), is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches writing and ethics. He is also the administrator of The Right Thing, a Web log focused on ethical issues.
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