Posted on 08/05/2005 8:11:31 AM PDT by petconservative
If you join an order where you take a vow of poverty, why complain about the lack of luxuries?
Reminds me of the guy who joined the army and then sued when he was going to be sent to war, because 'when he signed up he never intended to go to war'. The world is full of nut cases.
I agree about misuse of fraud. I meant that if the info about her being a bit goofy is true, someone saying this needn't be attacked. It doesn't spoil her good work, so why get upset? The comment was more aimed at the posters taking great offense on this thread.
Zek has risen above Mother Teresa. Enlighten us!
Basic question, why wasn't the money spent on the poor?
Can anyone refute the facts that are alleged?Which facts, that they lived with and as the poor? That was widely known, was openly advertised as part of the Order, and it was intentional. If this woman was surprised by that she is a fool.
If you mean the claims that the money disappeared, or whatever it was this woman insinuated, she provides no “facts” to support that insinuation.
All she can say is that she processed lots of checks. For an order as large and as well known as this, that is hardly surprising, nor is it evidence of malfeasance. She also notes that Mother Theresa wasn’t out shaking folks down for that money. It costs a lot of money to treat aids patients and others, and I see little evidence the money wasn’t spent, or is unaccounted for. That they don’t want to open their books to you is hardly a basis for you to claim there are problems. To the extent you think otherwise, I’ll look forward to stopping by and examining your professional books.
When donations are solicited for helping the poor, and are not used for that purpose, that's what we call fraud.Do you have some evidence that this happened?
Mother Theresa took money under false pretenses, pure and simple.Again, your evidence is?
A lot of you people scare me. Because of people like many of you in this thread, eye witnesses of all sorts of injustice are reluctant to come forward, thus the truth rarely sees the light of day. When it finally does, you ridicule it or cover it up; keep it at an arm's length. This is what keeps the status quo going by keeping the money hoarders and sex abusers in a relatively protected place. Why do you do this to yourselves? Do you even care what is happening on a global scale?
Wake up.
" Why do you do this to yourselves? Do you even care what is happening on a global scale? "
Why do you do this(torment) to yourself? Do YOU even know what is true, false and inbetween on a global scale? How on earth were you able to cover so much ground in such little time? Can you walk on water too? Part any seas lately? Believe most biased news stories?
Even the Catholic Church at one point said that Mother Theresa was possessed, so what do you say about that?
I think that there is a danger in trying to follow one person, and not God, because humans do err.
What? What is your source on this?
Yes humans do err and I do not follow Mother Theresa but I do admire her. Christ says that you should know them by their fruits and Mother Theresa produced great comfort for the most "untouchable" among us.
I'm a Methodist but am able to give credit where it is due.
You got it! The Nun's Story, I Leaped over the Wall--Failures with obedience always come first. After that, la deluge.
You are a complete and total liar.
Hey I have to compliment you. You have the all-consuming satan-inspired hatred of the Catholic Church thing down pat. Good luck with that gig.
You're right.
Great speech to the National Prayer Breakfast in 1994
. . .But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
Hasn't Christopher Hitchens done at least one savage hit piece on her? The neocons love Christopher Hitchens. Not me.
Cal Thomas, an eyewitness at the event, wrote a great column shortly thereafter (wish I could find it now) describing the Clintons' discomfiture and quoting some of Mother Teresa's ear-burning denunciations of abortion.
Thank you for posting that link. I am not a Catholic but I appreciate that woman, even if for no other reason than what she did on that day.
Her death within days of Princess Diana's death was, unfortunately, overshadowed by Diana's death and the world paid scant attention to the passing of this great lioness of the church.
In other words...You can't name one.
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