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By Jeremy | September 4, 2007
. Dubbed a "crisis of faith," the article retells her decades long "dark night," an unrelenting "absence" from God's presence that began for her in the late 40s und continued until her death. It paradoxically uncovers the inner turmoil of a woman who at once could declare Christ's infinite love for others while experiencing in her own heart: "the silence and the emptiness ... so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear."
Teresa considered the perceived absence of God in her life as her most shameful secret but eventually learned that it could be seen as a gift abetting her calling. If her worries about publicizing it also turn out to be misplaced  if a book of hasty, troubled notes turns out to ease the spiritual road of thousands of fellow believers, there would be no shame in having been wrong  but happily, even wonderfully wrong  twice.+ Two-years after Katrina, much of New Orleans still lies in ruins. Instead of hiring out-of-state contractors to rebuild rent-based, generational "low-income housing," why not invite displaced residents of the Ninth Ward and other traditionally poor districts (which are being described, two-years after Katrina, as "wastelands") to rebuild their own homes -- which they will end up owning rather than renting? In this way, returning residents will acquire capital (the future equity in their own homes); trades; employment; and investment in a community that they built with their own hands.
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