The pope "beatifies" 'Mother' Teresa

[guno]

Like we didn't see this coming, a cash cow for the catholic church

The fanatic, fraudulent Mother Teresa.

 

[Penelope]

Bill Donohue comments on an article published by Serge Larivée et al. in a Canadian journal, Studies in Religion, on Mother Teresa:

This attack on Mother Teresa is a rehash of a book written by the late atheist, Christopher Hitchens, The Missionary Position. Indeed, no one is cited more in this piece than Hitchens. Not surprisingly, the lead author, Serge Larivée, is a devout atheist, as is at least one of the co-authors.

The authors write of Mother Teresa’s “rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.”

CANADIAN ATHEISTS RIP MOTHER TERESA

 

[SassyIrishLass]

 

[Harry Dresden]

the pontiff beat her?.....

 

[anotherlife]

Empowering women is important. It reduces overcrowding, and elevates living standards. But this is relative to technology, and when automatization is growing faster than birth rates drop, mother Theresa still ends up correct. At least statistically.

 

[Compost]

Wow. Just when I thought guno couldn't be more of a jerk, he picks on Mother Teresa- a woman who took care of poor sick people.

 

[anotherlife]

Wow. Just when I thought guno couldn't be more of a jerk, he picks on Mother Teresa- a woman who took care of poor sick people.

1st amendment.

 

[Compost]

Wow. Just when I thought guno couldn't be more of a jerk, he picks on Mother Teresa- a woman who took care of poor sick people.

1st amendment.

Yeah. We're all exercising it. What does that have to do with my point? Nothing.

 

[mdk]

She was already beatified and now she has been canonized. If you're going to poke fun at the Catholic Church at least get your terms correct, dunce.

 

[guno]

Wow. Just when I thought guno couldn't be more of a jerk, he picks on Mother Teresa- a woman who took care of poor sick people.

another kool aid drinking statue bower

 

[guno]

Bill Donohue comments on an article published by Serge Larivée et al. in a Canadian journal, Studies in Religion, on Mother Teresa:

This attack on Mother Teresa is a rehash of a book written by the late atheist, Christopher Hitchens, The Missionary Position. Indeed, no one is cited more in this piece than Hitchens. Not surprisingly, the lead author, Serge Larivée, is a devout atheist, as is at least one of the co-authors.

The authors write of Mother Teresa’s “rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.”

CANADIAN ATHEISTS RIP MOTHER TERESA

Bill Donohue

he is a drunken irish wife beater, that's why his wife divorced him , he made excuses for the pedophile running his church,he sounds an looks just like archie bunker

 

[guno]

She was already beatified and now she has been canonized. If you're going to poke fun at the Catholic Church at least get your terms correct, dunce.

she has been canonized.

 

[guno]

Her “selfless” intentions were hardly selfless

Mother Theresa was intent on converting as many people to Catholicism as possible, even at the expense of the poor.

No one builds a church purely for the love of God — especially in third-world countries where critical services, like hospitals, are lacking. Religious groups that erect houses of worship in these areas do so not just out of the kindness of their heart, but to increase the number of people who believe in their faith. Like those missionaries, conversion — the Church’s key to survival — was Mother Teresa’s primary goal. In the context of the Catholic Church, charity can be viewed as a self-interested act.

“It’s good to work for a cause with selfless intentions,” Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak, said. “But Mother Teresa’s work had ulterior motive, which was to convert the person who was being served to Christianity. In the name of service, religious conversions were made.”

When they reviewed the British documentary Hell’s Angel, a film that highlighted Mother Teresa’s flaws, The New York Times concluded that she was “less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs.”

But helping the poor is helping the poor, and regardless of any possible ulterior motives, at least the people she cared for were better off for it, right? Wrong…



The conditions at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India were horrific


Why On Earth Is Mother Teresa Being Made A Saint?

 

[Meriweather]

It does not concern me in the least
that I be judged by you or any human tribunal;
I do not even pass judgment on myself;
I am not conscious of anything against me,
but I do not thereby stand acquitted;
the one who judges me is the Lord.
Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time,
until the Lord comes,
for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness
and will manifest the motives of our hearts,
and then everyone will receive praise from God.

(1 Corinthians 4)

Those of the Jewish faith may not give credence to New Testament scripture, but Paul's words two thousand years ago are worth considering. In Canonizing Mother Teresa, her entire life was closely investigated. She did all she could to help and call attention to the plight of the poor in Calcutta, India. She was there to help and bring help. She dared to do something that few of us have the heart to even consider.

Another quote to consider, this one from Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

 

[guno]

“Workers washed needles under tap water and then reused them. Medicine and other vital items were stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients,” said Hemley Gonzalez, a noted humanitarian worker in Indoa, when describing the Missionaries of Charity location he briefly volunteered at.

“Volunteers with little or no training carried out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of tuberculosis and other life-threatening illnesses. The individuals who operated the charity refused to accept and implement medical equipment and machinery that would have safely automated processes and saved lives.”

It wasn’t just a select few cynical journalists who criticized Mother Teresa’s hospice care, either. In her hospice care centers, Mother Teresa practiced her belief that patients only needed to feel wanted and die at peace with God — not receive proper medical care — and medical experts went after her for it. In 1994, the British medical journal The Lancet claimed that medicine was scarce in her hospice centers and that patients received nothing close to what they needed to relieve their pain.

Doctors took to calling her locations “homes for the dying,” and such a name was warranted. Mother Teresa’s Calcutta home for the sick had a mortality rate of more than 40 percent. But in her view, this wasn’t a bad thing, as she believed that the suffering of the poor and sick was more of a glory than a burden.


“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.”

what a sick mentally ill individual

 

[guno]

Well-meaning Catholics gave money to Mother Theresa’s charitable organizations, but many of them would never see their money go toward good works.

Keating’s $1.25 million donation alone would seem large enough to lift all of those in her care out of poverty, but one volunteer said that “even when bread was over at the soup kitchens, none was bought unless donated.” In one incident, after running up an $800 tab at a grocery store to feed people at her charity, Mother Teresa refused to get out of line until someone else paid.

The German magazine Stern estimated that only seven percent of the millions of dollars Teresa received was used for charity. But seven percent of what total figure, exactly? The world will never know, since the new leader of Missionaries of Charity, Nirmala Joshi, said that the donations were “countless,” and there was only one person with the actual numbers: God. “God knows,” Joshi said. “He is our banker.”

 

[Meriweather]

“Workers washed needles under tap water and then reused them. Medicine and other vital items were stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients,” said Hemley Gonzalez, a noted humanitarian worker in Indoa, when describing the Missionaries of Charity location he briefly volunteered at.

“Volunteers with little or no training carried out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of tuberculosis and other life-threatening illnesses. The individuals who operated the charity refused to accept and implement medical equipment and machinery that would have safely automated processes and saved lives.”

It wasn’t just a select few cynical journalists who criticized Mother Teresa’s hospice care, either. In her hospice care centers, Mother Teresa practiced her belief that patients only needed to feel wanted and die at peace with God — not receive proper medical care — and medical experts went after her for it. In 1994, the British medical journal The Lancet claimed that medicine was scarce in her hospice centers and that patients received nothing close to what they needed to relieve their pain.

Doctors took to calling her locations “homes for the dying,” and such a name was warranted. Mother Teresa’s Calcutta home for the sick had a mortality rate of more than 40 percent. But in her view, this wasn’t a bad thing, as she believed that the suffering of the poor and sick was more of a glory than a burden.


“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.”

what a sick mentally ill individual

Do you know that these critics of Mother Teresa would not let even one person with actual experience in one of Mother Teresa's houses to be interviewed on screen? Take a look at this report from one person who was interested enough to investigate what critics were saying about Mother Teresa:

After studying their (Canadian researchers) report—twenty-seven pages in French—I sought out people who had known Mother Teresa, or been involved with her cause to inquire about its charges. Every single one of them told me that the Mother Teresa presented by the Canadian researchers was unrecognizable from the one they encountered, and to prove it, provided point by point rebuttals to their accusations.

 

[Meriweather]

Well-meaning Catholics gave money to Mother Theresa’s charitable organizations, but many of them would never see their money go toward good works.

Keating’s $1.25 million donation alone would seem large enough to lift all of those in her care out of poverty, but one volunteer said that “even when bread was over at the soup kitchens, none was bought unless donated.” In one incident, after running up an $800 tab at a grocery store to feed people at her charity, Mother Teresa refused to get out of line until someone else paid.

The German magazine Stern estimated that only seven percent of the millions of dollars Teresa received was used for charity. But seven percent of what total figure, exactly? The world will never know, since the new leader of Missionaries of Charity, Nirmala Joshi, said that the donations were “countless,” and there was only one person with the actual numbers: God. “God knows,” Joshi said. “He is our banker.”

Yet no one can show that Mother Teresa misused the money. She was not a hoarder, she shared what she was given with many other charities who were also in desperate need.

 

[guno]

10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa; She was no Saint

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity baptized the dying without their permission.

10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa; She was no Saint

 

[Meriweather]

10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa; She was no Saint

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity baptized the dying without their permission.

10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa; She was no Saint

Now your are truly reaching. The site itself admits the blessing the dying received may have indeed been in alignment of the dying's belief. Even so, even in this case they were first asked if they wanted God's forgiveness and blessing.