This is what St Mother Teresa said to a Fr George Rutler. With their usual conceit, or should I say deceit, Modernists say she could not have said this.

Not very long ago I said Mass and preached for their [the Missionary of Charity’s] Mother, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and after breakfast we spent quite a long time talking in a little room. Suddenly, I found myself asking her – I don’t know why – “Mother, what do you think is the worst problem in the world today?” She more than anyone could name any number of candidates: famine, plague, disease, the breakdown of the family, rebellion against God, the corruption of the media, world debt, nuclear threat, and so on. Without pausing a second she said, “Wherever I go in the whole world, the thing that makes me the saddest is watching people receive Communion in the hand.”

I am sure Mother Teresa would have said this.   She spent an hour every day adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  She saw Christ in the dead, the dying, the diseased and maggot filed bodies lying in the streets of Calcutta.  Nobody discerned the Body of Christ more than St Mother Teresa. 

The claim of Modernists is that she could not have said this or she would have been contradicting the Church.  In fact what happened is that the Pope made a reference to the right of those communities who had practiced Communion in the hand as part of their Liturgy should continue to do so.  It was a strange permission because there appears to have been no group attached to the Church who did so.   What happened is that many Bishops including the English ones asked for permission to pursue the practice.   This was at a time when Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was being removed from the altars into a side Chapel away from the congregation who would not longer it was hoped embarrass Protestants by genuflecting.    There was certainly a document which was an instruction to Cath3drals and places of worship where there were many visitors who disturbed the congregation in their prayers.  This was not a new instruction for Westminster Cathedral had a side chapel for the Blessed Sacrament long before Vatican II.   Nevertheless this document was used to attack adoration in ordinary parishes.  So if Mother Teresa was criticising the Church she had every right to do so.