Mary Prema Pierick Europe. She returned to India to supervise the tertianship program of the institute, the last stage of training before final religious profession. She succeeded Sister Nirmala Joshi as Superior General on 24 March 2009, heading an institute which had over 5,000 members worldwide at that time. Mary Prema Pierick Sister Mary Prema Pierick, M.C. (born 13 May 1953), is the current Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity of Calcutta, India, the religious institute founded by the Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born Mechthild Pierick in a farming community in Reken, Germany. In 1980, after reading the biography
Missionaries in India criticized Shourie for his book and presented a critique of the book. As the campaign against Shourie and his book on missionaries in India grew larger, Prajna Bharati, an intellectual forum with headquarters in Hyderabad, invited several senior churchmen to discuss "Missionaries in India" with Shourie on a public platform. Fr. Kanjamala debated with Shourie on the contents of the book on 4 September 1994. Soon after the publication of the book by Shourie, Vishal Mangalwadi, an Indian Christian writer and activist, began to write letters to Shourie in which he responded to various issues raised by him. Shourie, evidently,