Mother Teresa of Calcutta, now the irritating Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
as a result of one of the milestones in the scheme by the late Pope John Paul
II to fast-track her to sainthood, beatification, is
destined to become one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church. It has emerged that she had to be exorcised
of demons on her deathbed.
Writers Professor Serge Larivie and Genevieve Chenard in the journal, Studies in Religion/Sciences, have made it clear that Mother Teresa deserves severe criticism for "her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce."
For example, the 517 missions she had set up for the poor and the sick in many countries were really just places for the dying to be dumped in. Doctors who checked out her activities in Calcutta have established this. The places were found to be needlessly dirty, the inmates were inadequately fed and looked after. Worse, they had NO PAINKILLERS!
Mother let people think that money was scarce but that was not the case at all.
The writers noted that Mother never gave money to help the victims of natural disasters in India. But she said prayers for them. And she wasted the money on sending them medals of the Virgin Mary. Millions of dollars were put by Mother into many secret accounts.
Thanks also to the work of
Christopher Hitchens it is possible to see the truth
about Mother Teresa who nobody dares criticise.
Mother aided the evil Duvalier family of Haiti and buttered them up. She got a million dollars from Charles
Keating and kept it ignoring requests to her to return it after she knew he had
stolen the money. She has opposed the
human right to divorce, contraception and abortion and the rights of secular
people. She thought she knew it all. It was okay for her to campaign against these
things for she never needed them. She
was an epitome of the reprehensible selfishness that exists in the worst
fundamentalist Christians. She even said
that poverty was a gift from God. She
accepted the vicious idea that the purpose of suffering is for the betterment
of character. The atheist refuses to
condone suffering this way and so the atheist should have a greater hatred of the suffering in the
world than the religionist. She refused
to use anything in her clinics to relieve pain for she accepted the Catholic
doctrine that suffering is a good thing.
She checked into the best hospitals in the world when she was sick
herself and anything was good enough for the poor she used to create her grand
and glorious image.
Mother stated that dogs were
fed on human foetuses. No evidence for
this claim has ever been uncovered. She
approved of a film about her, Mother Teresa and her world, which claimed that there
were a quarter of a million lepers in Calcutta while another film she
collaborated in said it was 40,000. She
has exaggerated the number of lepers and has helped them in preference to the
even more serious plague of malaria.
She lied as well that she knew
no poor woman in
Mother had 50 million dollars
in the New York bank alone and yet the order greedily solicited for money. This was the order that used the same syringe
on many sick patients under the pretext of hard times. The money shouldn’t have been lying in
accounts. Every penny should have been
used.
Mother Teresa spoke against
Vatican II making any doctrinal or practical changes in the Roman Catholic
Church in the sixties. She supported the
old horrific triumphalist and sectarian Church system
that existed before Vatican II. She did
not want the Church to become more human.
She has frequently presented
Please look up the sites by
Christopher Hitchens and Aroup
Chatterjee on the Internet and do a search in
Google. Free Inquiry Winter 97-98 Volume
18 and Issue 1 ran an article by a former member of the Order Mother Teresa
founded the Missionaries of Charity. She
left the Order and exposed the evil and predominant side of Mother Teresa in
the article. The article can be found on
page 31. She testified that |Mother
believed that obedience to the Order and to the Church is God’s will and that
it is good to choose to suffer for it makes God give more graces out to the
Church. Attachment to people and
friendship was forbidden. This is so
that Christ’s command that God alone be loved and other things loved for his
sake meaning not for themselves but for him and not
for yourself but for him may be observed.
The effect of all this was the nuns telling lies and refusing to commit
the sin of thinking independently.
Mother Teresa caused a lot of destruction among the nuns. Mother Teresa amassed huge donations for the
order and made no effort to make sure that the nuns used clean needles when
they injected. She wouldn’t supply them.
The Order she ran is so much like an extreme religious cult.
It was reported in the Sunday Tribune of
October 20th, 2002, (Vol 22) that Monica Besra, a West Bengali lady, who alleged that she was cured
by Mother Teresa was not the recipient of a miracle though the
In The Freethinker October 2007 it was revealed that doctors claimed that Besra's recovery was not down to a miracle but down to conventional medical treatment. Besra was stricken with poverty and the Missionaries of Charity nuns promised her financial help. It continued only as long as the nuns needed Besra involved in the plot to attribute a miracle to Mother Teresa that never really happened. They used her and then they dumped her.
The Lancet, a respected medical journal, gave a negative appraisal of Mother Teresa's methods of looking after people. She refused to listen. She had the money to improve the substandard care.
SF Weekly make it clear that Mother Teresa knew that her priest friend, Donald McGuire, abused a Bay Area boy in 1993. The Church, for a change, dismissed him from his ministry. She didn't care and made efforts to have him put back into active ministry. She stated this must be done as soon as humanly possible. In a letter she referred to the abuses as sad events and that he was guilty of imprudence. In other words, he made a mistake. She was close to excusing his behaviour. She got her wish for his reinstatement and the McGuire attacked more boys. He ended up arrested in 2005.
She wrote, "I understand how grave is the scandal touching the priesthood in the U.S.A. and how careful we must be to guard the purity and reputation of that priesthood". She lied that she considered his crime grave but she stated that the reputation of the Church took priority.
Again she implied the crime was not serious and made no difference to her, "I must say, however, that I have confidence and trust in Fr. McGuire and wish to see his vital ministry resume as soon as possible." There was no empathy for the victim.
The letter was used as evidence in litigation against McGuire's order, the Jesuits.
According to Hope Endures by a former nun from Mother Teresa's order, The Missionaries of Charity, Collete Livermore, the order though it had sufficient money donated to it for the purpose of buying books to help with the medical work this was not done (page 115). As a result, the health of the sisters was at risk. The book explains how the nuns were not provided with medical advice, the use of mosquito repellents, information about malaria and vaccinations (page 115). It attributes this to the idea that God would look after the nuns.
The book recounts how Colette, then called Sister Tobit, got into trouble with the order for helping a man with dysentery who was in danger of dying (page 163). The order cared more about obedience than doing the right thing. Mother Teresa declared according to page 168, that she recognised 1 Peter 2:18-23 as being correct. This text ordered slaves to obey their masters even if they were abusive and difficult. It said that it is great to be beaten for doing wrong when one is innocent and that such patience pleases God. Peter also says that this has to be the right attitude for Jesus gave us an example to follow. Mother Teresa used this text to urge her nuns to obey superiors without question (page 168). Sister Tobit decided to leave the order. She didn't like the way she was expected to let the poor suffer rather than disobey orders and she made that clear to Mother Teresa (page 172). Mother Teresa was "not sympathetic" and told Tobit that her feelings were sourced in temptation and pride (page 172). In other words, Tobit was bad for seeing sense. Mother was judging her despite forbidding Tobit to judge those who acted as dictators in the order over her (page 224).
Later Colette recounted the tale of what happened in Manila when she tried to help a sick boy called Alex. Sister Valerie who was in charge of her forbade her to help him though Colette told her there was no reason why they couldn't.
Mother Teresa wouldn't let the nuns have a washing machine (page 194). This forced the nuns to wash the underwear of the incontinent with brushes. The order was more concerned about inflicting hardship on the nuns than on helping the sick. A washing machine would have freed up their time to help people. Mother was definitely misusing the funds so kindly donated to her from all over the world. It was the struggle to help not the helping that mattered in her Christian philosophy.
When Tobit came Colette again she began to suspect that the gospel commands given by Christ to give to all who ask and thought that attempts to love unconditionally and forgive unconditionally really made one a doormat (page 287).
The book proves that Mother Teresa cannot be called a good woman. It proves that living the gospels properly is bad for you. The Missionaries of Charity experienced the damaging power of the gospels and yet they lived their lives as an example to those who they helped and those who knew them - ultimately to see them take on the same torments. Some charity!
An interview with
Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa's
House Of Illusions
The Illusory Vs. The Real Mother
Teresa
THE WWW
The following two
sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous heart is laid
bare. They show the deceit of Pope John
Paul II who was eager to make a saint of her.
OPEN LETTER TO
MOTHER TERESA, Aroup Chaterjee
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/chatlet.htm
MOTHER TERESA THE
FINAL VERDICT Aroup
Chaterjee
http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html
This fascinating
book reveals shockers such as that the pope has beatified Archbishop Stepinac of
Hope Endures, Colette Livermore, William Heinemann, North Sydney, Australia, 2008