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Mother Theresa

• WalterBright 2y ago
  Some quotes from the Wikipedia article on her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa > "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." > Chatterjee criticized her for promoting a "cult of suffering" and a distorted, negative image of Calcutta, exaggerating work done by her mission and misusing funds and privileges at her disposal. > Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, mayor of Calcutta from 2005 to 2010, said that "she had no significant impact on the poor of this city", glorified illness instead of treating it and misrepresented the city: "No doubt there was poverty in Calcutta, but it was never a city of lepers and beggars, as Mother Teresa presented it." While I am not a confidante of hers (and neither are you) I expect her selfish reward was the satisfaction in her work, the gratitude of those she helped, and the approbation from others. Selfish desires are not only about money.
  • MrMcCall 2y ago
    Yeah, I don't think the reports about her after her death were kind to the Church's claims of her having had a loving nature. It's possible my father was an Altar Boy in Pennsylvania. Some real monsters found a place to stay in those Parishes. My theory is that that's why PA is the home of some of the best wrestlers in the world. PA's report on CC sexual abuse of children was, IIUC, 800 pages long. And, to keep those collection baskets full, they covered it all up. I like how Robin Wiliams said it, "It's not just a sin, it's a felony!" We must treasure all children, and protect them with the most stringent consequences for the monsters of this world.