Film Review

Mother Teresa: No Greater Love — Why No Bullets Hit Her

God told Mother Teresa, ‘They can’t love me because they don’t know me’ — so she showed us who He is: pure love

Joseph Serwach
Catholic Way Home
Published in
4 min readOct 5, 2022

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Mother Teresa: No Greater Love film publicity image courtesy of the Knights of Columbus.

Gangs ruled the five Chicago high-rise towers, and “we could see the rifles surrounding us, shooting at us every day.”

So the young Missionaries of Charity called Mother Teresa. We saw the story in a new documentary, Mother Teresa: No Greater Love, the second most-watched film in America as it debuted on October 3.

“We were so relieved to see our Mother because we thought she would take us out of there,” Sister Mary Bernice recalls. “But that morning, she called us together for one of the biggest lessons on love that I have ever known.”

Mother Teresa: We can turn hate into love

Now one of the most recognized saints, Mother Teresa told them: “Sisters, I sent you here to love. I don’t care if they’re killing. We came here to love. We can turn hate into love. Take me now to the door where they are shooting us.”

Not one bullet touched us: Let us make a deal

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Joseph Serwach
Catholic Way Home

Story + Identity = Mission. Leadership Culture, Journalism, Branding Education. Inspiration: Catholic, Polish. https://serwachjoe.medium.com/membership