[LauraleeBraswell]

Mother Theresa was a sham and no saint. She never performed any miracles. Her and her dictator friends.

[wagglebee]

Would you care to go into details about this?

[Selkie]

Forget a sarcasm tag right ?

[AshfieldK]

'dictator'? 'sham'?

Enlighten me. Please. This oughta be good.

[pbear8]

Only God performs miracles Mr. Hitchens.

[BIGZ]

Mother Teresa was not a sham, in your judgment maybe, but to be sham Mother Teresa had to be counterfeit, or feign something, or make false pretenses. Mother Teresa did none of these things. The good work that Mother Teresa accomplished in her lifetime in itself was a Miracle.

Dictator friends?

Mother Teresa did not crash planes into the Trade Center or Pentagon. The terrorists who crashed planes were saints?

[jla]

Mother Theresa was a sham and no saint. She never performed any miracles. Her and her dictator friends.

Mother Teresa devoted her life to the poor, selflessly subjecting herself to a life of poverty.
You've no idea what you're talking about.

Out of curiosity though, name some of these "dictator friends" of hers.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I'm Lauralee, I'm 18, I'm not part of the Christian Right, I've never touched a gun, and I live in Left Wing Liberal New York.

So this makes it okay to forget your manners?

[LittleBoPeep]

Being able to care for and help and reassure people who are ill, diseased, unclean, down and out every day, day after day, isn't a miracle? Could YOU do it?

[Shortstop7]

You are a fool.

[mississippi red-neck]

Mother Theresa was a sham and no saint.

I'm not Catholic. I have serious doubts about some of their teachings. But I'll lay that aside.

I was born in 1945. I remember hearing, seeing and reading about this fine human being and her work from the late 50's. Maybe she had her faults though none that standout proven to me that I recall.

Like I said she probably had some faults,she was human. But cheap two-bit talk slandering other human beings was not one of them.

She never sought fame, fortune, nor praise. If she did then she was a failure, at least in the fortune part.

I never seen her driving around everyday in her black limo,or at her mansion in Spain, or at some resort on the Riviera or on the beach at Martha's Vineyard.

I never seen her seek a media event. Sometimes however they sought her.

I can tell you where they found her. In some of the most horrible,filthy,dangerous disease,rodent infested slums on the planet.

I would have said God forsaken but He had one of his better ambassadors there.

She was there trying to help as best she could some of the most pitiful sick and starving forgotten people in our world.

She wasn't there walking through on some 15 minute UN political tour. She spent most of a lifetime of seven day weeks, 24 hour days serving her fellow man. If she got rich I never seen what she spent it on for herself.

I know some people that need help didn't get it from her. When you are trying to feed and doctor the masses she was trying to help ,well there's just no way you can.

I have often wondered in my sixty years why people go out of their way to criticize, attack and destroy a person who dedicates their life to serving the needs of their fellow human beings.

She spent half a lifetime doing so before most of her modern know-it-all critics where even borne.

What possible good can be gained by saying things so bitterly spiteful of a person who is dead and gone and unable to defend herself?

Someone of who they know nothing about or the work they do except that spoken by a wagging tongue.There is only one reason I have been able to come up with.

The reason I believe they do so is, when they look at such a person as Mother Teresa they see just how selfish, self-centered and insignificant they and their own lives are.

No she is not a John Paul.

But if John Paul was the man people think he was and I'm not about to say he wasn't, he would have been quick to say he was no Mother Teresa either.

Unfortunately for the world neither are the two jerks and the company they represent.

BTW what have you done for humanity lately besides criticize someone who dedicated their entire life trying to help others?

[L.N. Smithee]

You're young and relatively new at Free Republic, so as someone who is neither, here's a tip: if you don't want to be treated as if you are a liberal troll, don't act like one. Trolls do the hit-and-run insults. You shouldn't. You have infinite cyberspace to outline your charges against her "dictator friends." You should use it, unless you're just talking out of your posterior.

If you just want to spit on people's religious beliefs apropos of nothing, maybe FR isn't for you. And maybe you don't belong here.

For the record, I am not a Catholic, and don't believe in saints, beatification, or the infallibility of the Pope. But I save the word "dictator" for people who deserve it.

[Romish_Papist]

Let me ask you, little Miss Deist, how many poor have YOU cared for? When did YOU give up everything and dedicate your life to caring for others? Hmmmm...? I'm waiting... I thought so.

[firebrand]

Grow up