Posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:05 AM PDT by xzins
As the world awaits Mother Teresa’s canonization Sunday, one mystery remains: why the international Left still harbors such hatred for a diminutive religious sister who spent her entire life serving the poorest of the poor.
After all, with her inexhaustible dedication to alleviating poverty and assisting the needy, Mother Teresa should be an icon of liberals the world over. Instead, we find that the Left showers her not with affection and praise, but with scorn and disdain.
On September 1, The Washington Post published an article titled “Why Mother Teresa Is Still No Saint to Many of Her Critics,” citing harsh condemnations of the nun by Hindu nationalists and cataloguing the complaints lodged against the missionary’s work through the decades.
Earlier this year, Salon called Mother Teresa “repugnant,” accusing her of glorifying suffering instead of relieving it. “Judged by any metric of medical standards,” the piece stated, “it is difficult to remember her legacy as anything other than an inefficient, sanctimonious and wholly ideological franchise.”
Last weekend, The New York Times showcased “one of the most vocal critics” of Mother Teresa, an Indian physician named Aroup Chatterjee who has made a career out of casting aspersions on the work of the Albanian nun.
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Yes, it has to.
Compare and contrast Hillary to Blessed Teresa. Or remember what Progressive feminists said about about Clinton’s sins: Utterly irrelevant because they protect abortion.
We are in a time of division, of separation, as in sheep from goats. I am afraid.
All donations to Teresa went to Vatican and poor remain poor and Clergy remain Rich.
SHEESH !! YOU’RE CRAZY !!
1. “ Why would she claim to feed 9000 Calcuttans per day, when ALL THREE soup kitchens in Calcutta only feed 300 per day (Chatterjee’s study).”
Uhhh, Izzy Dunne, how many homeless or destitute have you fed in your lifetime?
2. “Why would she use ambulances to ferry her nuns to / from prayer services?”
To carpool? Save the environment? They were late? Would it be excuseable if it did not have air conditioning? How do we know this was not an ox cart?
3. “Why would the Mission only help children if the parents would release parental rights to the order?”
I think some context here might be helpful. Were they children of drug addicts? Were the parents dying of leprosy?
4. “Why did she say that suffering is noble and beautiful, evoking the suffering of Christ, but when SHE got ill, she went to rich, expensive hospitals ?”
Those who take a vow of poverty are rich beyond all measure.
Of the matters you ask about, I know that Mother Teresa was originally a Dominican nun. At some point, she was assigned to India to teach the daughters of India's wealthy. She wanted to serve the poor and successfully petitioned the Vatican to release her from the Dominican order and allow her to form her own order: Daughters of Charity.
God bless you and yours!
My, aren’t YOU the embittered cynic!
Although you could look for them yourself... You'll find how she funneled money to the RCC itself, rather than spend it on the poor she was "helping".
Fostered two kids for over two years, but so what?
It's not about me. I'm not a candidate for saint.
Read all four. None speak to your most blatant accusations. Nice try though.
Lie
The “Petition”, especially, is interesting. Referring to Hitchens, it offers a view of the saint that has her living in poverty and extreme conditions so that she can funnel money to the rich Vatican while “imposing” her religious views” in a quest for conversions.
So, she gave up the security, comparative comfort, and regularity of the life of a teaching sister to beg for herself and the poorest of the poor — so that they ight have a few minutes of respectful and loving care before they died.
While she ran this con — if we are to believe Hitchens and the rest — her organization grew in 47 years from 13 to 4,000 — all, we are to believe, so that she could impose conversion on the people nobody cared about while running a convert and Hillary-like slush fund for the Vatican.
Not only evil but devilishly crafty, she conned intellectuals and pious people from all over the world and prompted the conversion of Malcolm Muggeridge. But atheists, the Muslims of Kosovo, and the killers of the unborn are too wily to be taken in. They see that it is far, far better that the dying poor be abandoned on the streets ... anything to prevent living the Cross in a way that someone might notice.
That, my friend, is an awesome post!
But you are a candidate for sainthood.
Or do you have other more important priorities?
Regardless of what happens tomorrow, heaven has already had many parties in her honor. Attended by many that died in her arms. Tomorrow it becomes formal, official.
Mother Teresa wasn't a doctor. She didn't heal anyone, and worked tirelessly among people who were dying.
Thanks!
It’s the tequila.
;-)
For worldlings, numbers matter. So many lived; so many had their pain narcotized; so many streets were cleared of the stinking dying and dead. The higher the numbers, the ore praiseworthy the mission.
To the world we say, “Not one person was fed, freed from prison, clothed, housed, succored, or healed on Good Friday. Only the utter failure of the Cross could turn the world upside down and evil into good.
Sure, like the Little Sisters of the Poor — but maybe more rigorously, the Missionaries of Charity do some good that worldlings recognize. But CHIEF among their victories is to stop, to bathe, to comfort and soothe the dying — so that they do not die alone and unloved.
The worldlings look for pleasure, profit, and utility. Therefore they kill the unwanted unborn and the expensive handicapped and elderly. But the members of the crucified Body look for the Love which triumphs not in spite of defeat but through it.
It is as clear and crisp an opposition as one might wish for. One crucified man says to another, “Today you will be with me in Paradise,” and the worldlings scoff. They, after all, had proclaimed their utilitarian view: If you be the Son of God, come down from the Cross.
When I was a hospital chaplain, a woman was dying. Alone with her, I took her hand, as she still breathed. Alone with her, I released the hand of a corpse. Then the useful people came in and made their notes and pronouncements. And I was fine with that. I know those are good things to do.
But I had held her hand. And this was a residency for which I paid tuition. So I paid for the privilege, while the useful people drew a salary.
I commend, I love the doctors and nurses. But I still maintain that for a few minutes I had the better job.
xzins knows what I'm talking about.
I’ve had a taste this past quarter for fireball, but tequila is my favorite sipping liquor. I like the flavor.
Blessed are the poor in Spirit.
Mother Theresa was not trying to be a health program for those who were suffering. She could have become a doctor or founded a hospital for that. Plenty of orders of religious have done that. She was trying to be a friend. That really doesn’t fit into a Leftist mindset.
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