Posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:05 AM PDT by xzins
As the world awaits Mother Teresa’s canonization Sunday, one mystery remains: why the international Left still harbors such hatred for a diminutive religious sister who spent her entire life serving the poorest of the poor.
After all, with her inexhaustible dedication to alleviating poverty and assisting the needy, Mother Teresa should be an icon of liberals the world over. Instead, we find that the Left showers her not with affection and praise, but with scorn and disdain.
On September 1, The Washington Post published an article titled “Why Mother Teresa Is Still No Saint to Many of Her Critics,” citing harsh condemnations of the nun by Hindu nationalists and cataloguing the complaints lodged against the missionary’s work through the decades.
Earlier this year, Salon called Mother Teresa “repugnant,” accusing her of glorifying suffering instead of relieving it. “Judged by any metric of medical standards,” the piece stated, “it is difficult to remember her legacy as anything other than an inefficient, sanctimonious and wholly ideological franchise.”
Last weekend, The New York Times showcased “one of the most vocal critics” of Mother Teresa, an Indian physician named Aroup Chatterjee who has made a career out of casting aspersions on the work of the Albanian nun.
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Well, jenny, now that you've been completely put down for your ridiculous prior statement, you're changing the subject!
Are you a leftist? You're certainly behaving like one.
Mother Teresa believed that life was sacred at every step. Its not hard. Life does not have to be long, or comfortable. But life is given, one to each of us. And we should respect each other’s and our own. That is mother Teresa’s message. God gave us life. And we should have love for God and for life. Or as the Bible puts it. “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ... 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”
To attack Mother Teresa is to attack Christianity.
But you said to make clergy rich. This is something totally different.
Jenny can’t defend her statements, so she’s jumping all over the place with scattershot accusations.
I don't think Mother Teresa ever gave a sh!t about being judged by "any metric of medical standards." If she wanted to be a doctor (and was capable of it), she would have gone to medical school.
I have an interesting take on Mother Teresa's legacy in India. This is right from someone who was born and raised in India, from the highest caste in the country. He tells me that many of the elite Hindus in India despised Mother Teresa because they were so embarrassed by the exposure she brought to the sh!t-hole country of theirs.
Not true.
Source of your accusation, please.
You are mixing up some bad players which any denomination has with this lady who helped the poor?
Why are you mixing the two?
Her clear and persistent opposition to abortion also fuels the hatred.
The effect of a clearly sacrificial woman opposing the sacrament of the left is too great for them to ignore. They have to try to take her down.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks, AC.
The abortion issue has to get to them.
Wow, I did an internet search and the net is filled with hatred for the woman! I always assumed she was revered even by the left.
To a leftist charity that does not oiginate from government is evil and criminal. That is formal doctrine of Communist parties and implied in socialist programs.
Thanks for sharing. I also assumed she was revered, but far from it.
Horse crap.
Why is it that everything she did furthered the purpose of BEING SEEN to be doing something, rather than doing something?
Why is is she was nominated ONE YEAR after her death when policy had long been to wait five?
Why is it that the pope abolished the office of advocatus diabolo for this case?
Even if you're Catholic, you must be ashamed of the "miracle" claims - a woman claimed to be cured of her "cancer" by praying to a picture of Teresa (false idols, anyone?), when her doctor says that she didn't have cancer, but a cyst which was cured by prescription medicine.
Why did investigators come back from "Missionaries of Charity" with stories of how she did little to relieve suffering, but lots to increase Catholicism ?
The rush to canonize her is another example of the church's rotten stand on moral questions: appearances are everything.
I'm no communist.
Of course not, because it was never about relieving suffering, but glorifying the church.
There was a Pharmacist in my town who was in the Marine Raiders on Guadacanal. He was terribly wounded in the battle for Bloody Ridge, and he was sent to a hospital the nuns had on the other side of the island (as there were no hospital ships in the area yet and he was far beyond a field medic’s capabilities. He stayed in this hospital for some time, a risk to the French nuns who ran the hospital and the natives who the hospital was for.But by the time the Japanese gave up on the island and the remnant was evacuated, and the hospital ship came , he was able to be loaded and sent back to New Orleans military hospital. We talked at length about his experience ( he went to pharmacy classes at Old Miss in a program that was a precursor to the G.I.Bill, and later bought a drugstore from the man he worked for. But one of the most interesting things was he said Mother Teresa, at that time a young nun working in this hot island jungle hospital, was one of the nuns at that hospital. I don’t know how to collaborate it, but he was not a man to make up stories, embellish the truth and found himself on Guadacanal by a stupid decision he made with a friend.( enlisted in the U.S. Marines and volunteering for “a dangerous mission”). I don’t know the order the nuns belonged to nor Mother Teresa’a order in the early 1940s. He had shrapnel still in both arms and legs as he tried to shield his face when a bottle grenade landed in front of him (a fused grenade the Japanese used) He lost one eye and his leg was shattered, some internal injuries. He may have kept up with her and donated to her work though the years. I do know he was a Catholic and a Knight of Columbus. He helped poor people in his town with prescriptions they couldn’t pay for. He passed away a couple of years ago, and is interred at the Missisippi Veterans Cemetary in Newton Ms. Benjamin Quintana
But if anyone knows , by reading a book on Mother Teresa,, having the facts or whatever , to collaborate her location in 1942, let me know.
woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.
Why would she use ambulances to ferry her nuns to / from prayer services?
Why would the Mission only help children if the parents would release parental rights to the order?
Why did she say that suffering is noble and beautiful, evoking the suffering of Christ, but when SHE got ill, she went to rich, expensive hospitals ?
Judeo-Christian faith in God scares the bejesus out of them.
Her life story doesn’t include service outside of India during the WWII years, but that does not mean that a nun named Teresa did not help your friend. I would bet that the nun was named Teresa, that he was wounded and out of it, but that he remembered that name.
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