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To: twigs

Hitchens in his own words. I think he concluded that she used a lot of the money to build convents for the order she started.


http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s266592.htm


108 posted on 05/04/2006 1:42:50 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily
But here was a woman who was the most extreme fanatic, who was distrusted by many in her own church for her utter dogmatism , and she was accepted by people who have no religious belief at all as if she was doing, so to speak, God's work ..... she said that there was a great threat to peace in the world and that the greatest threat - and I'll repeat, the greatest threat to peace in the world was the tendency of women to resort to abortion and to contraception -- Christopher Hitchins

Wow, what an exceedingly hateful man! Apparently the reason he hates Mother Teresa is because she's a believing Catholic.

125 posted on 05/04/2006 2:54:12 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
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