No. I don’t think she was an atheist. I’m sure I could google and find oodles of sites that say she was, but it’s probably all made up.
@chyna….she tumbled from the pedestal I held her on for so many years, when her ideas of “salvation and suffering” became clear to me.
Here is an exerpt from Wiki ”Mother Teresa considered that suffering – even when caused by poverty, medical problems, or starvation – was a gift from God. As a result, while her clinics received millions of dollars in donations, their conditions drew criticism from people disturbed by the shortage of medical care, systematic diagnosis, and necessary nutrition, as well as the scarcity of analgesics for those in pain.[108][109][110] Many of her critics accused her of a fundamental contradiction: It was estimated that she raised over $100 million for her charity, yet only 5–7% of this was used in catering to the poor. Some have argued that the additional money could have had transformative effects on the health of the poor by creating advanced palliative care facilities in the city.[111][112] Others, both in India and abroad, criticised her opposition to abortion and contraception.”
There is more, but when this all came to light I was so disheartened.