“What’s the poorest country you’ve ever been to?”  That question was once famously asked to Mother Theresa by an American reporter in the 1970’s.  Her response?

“I have been to many countries and seen much poverty and suffering. Everywhere I go people tell me of their hardships and struggles, and ask for help, and I give what I can. But of all the countries I have been to, the poorest one I have been to is America.”

Obviously unprepared for such an answer, the reporter informed Mother Teresa that America was one of the richest countries in the world and questioned why she said it was the poorest.  “Because”, she replied, “America suffers most from the poverty of loneliness.”

That was close to 40 years ago.  What do you think she’d say today?