"" Can you be certain the money was stolen? ""
Yep and she knew it too.
""Did she claim to have performed miracles?""
People pushing for her sainthood claimed it.
""Why did JPII think so highly of her and take steps to canonize her if she was a "sham"?""
I think because the pope is the number one diplomat for the Catholic church.
Who are the dictators in her life?
""enver Hoxha""
If she wasn't "that bad" what did she do that was "somewhat" bad?
Taking Stolen money and praising enver Hoxha.
""As you claim to not to be a Christian, what then do you consider a saint?""
I think there are certain things and odd happenings that may or may not be- but still remain uncertain. And I don't believe them- but I still think them strange. Uncorrupted bodies (of course Lenins body is also uncorrupted) But when you have a handful of people who say that this one individual cured them and bleeding statues and certain unexplainable things- I think that leaves room for Sainthood.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Perhaps it is your age, but you show a remarkable lack of maturity in this area. Perhaps you should confine yourself to topics you actually know something about. The secular humanism that Christopher Hitchens espouses is nothing more than an intellectual justification for the culture of death and anti-Christianity movement, it's goal is worldwide socialism.
Lenin has a team of people who spend hours every week keeping his body preserved.
Blessed Jacinta of Fatima fame (who's not a saint yet) died of influenza in 1920 and as a result she was buried in quicklime to speed up the decomposition. She is incorrupt, and I would call that a miracle.
Everything you state against Mother Theresa is taken from Christopher Hitchen's "Hell's Angel" movie slandering Mother Theresa. (His first choice for the title was Sacred Cow)
Im surprised that you didnt assert Hitchen's allegations that Mother Theresa loved “Papa Doc” Duvalier of Haiti.
His vituperous views are biased and his hatred of Mother Theresa and Christianity is well known.
ROFL.
Not just Hoxha, but Papa Doc Duvalier as well, and the awful Charles Keating.
Look, I like Mother Theresa and Ghandi who were the targets of the show, but I like the show, its an alternative point of view, told in a very humorous way for ADULTS.
I enjoy the show, and don't really care for a bunch of shrill screamers wanting to take it off. Oh, and I am Catholic and my faith is such that I can withstand attacks and critisism of the religion. Blind allegiance gets you in real trouble.
It is unfortunate that you seem to embrace secular humanism which is a spirit killing belief. Mother T. may not have been particular how she got money to help the poor, but help the poor she did, in the most devastating of circumstances.
You apparently got your information from sites like these:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/mother-teresa/
http://www.saintmychal.com/hitchens.htm
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html
http://blog.philipcasey.com/?p=24