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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I agree.
The need the bejesus scared out of them. :>)
I remember way back when Mother Teresa was a younger and more vigorous woman, that she carried the dying street people up the stairs to their rooms in her humble hospice in Calcutta.
At the time, the leftists screeched that Mother Teresa was “robbing these people of the dignity” by carrying them up the stairs instead of installing an elevator.
I kid you NOT.
It is only a memory of mine, so I don’t have a link. It was also in the days before the Internet.
FWIW, we built a new church building rather than install an elevator (with other renovations necessary).
It was cheaper, smarter, newer, more parking, better facility, etc.
Elevators in a streethouse in Calcutta?
They are crazy!
Besides, how can being carried by a living saint be an assault on one’s dignity! LOL!
Good thing it wasn’t a hamburger fed American.
She’d be the saint in heaven with a hernia. :>)
Are these your opinions or do you have a source for them?
Sources please
Izzy, I am with some MC’s once a week, I see what they do to help the poor. Are you telling us that you do more than they?
Gotta love these unsourced drive-by anti-Catholic screeds
Well, why did she? Please do tell...
If anyone should be canonized, it is Mother Teresa. However, I wish they’d have a rule to wait 50 years or so. That way emotions of the time don’t effect the decision. I can imagine a push for Francis to be canonized shortly after his death.
I agree with you.
India’s caste system decreed that whatever caste one was born into, was their caste for life.
BY helping the poor, the disenfranchised, and the untouchable, Mother Teresa was defying the social system that has ruled in India for thousands of years.
The prevailing religion in India believes in Karma. This can be extended to embrace the idea that, whatever suffering one has to endure, one has to go through it in order to advance to your next avatar. By relieving the suffering of the dying and the homeless, Mother Teresa was defying the religious system that has ruled in India for thousands of years.
When somebody stands against the entire social and religious system of a nation, and that person is a tiny WOMAN, and that tiny woman receives the accolades of the rest of the world, it is pretty damning.
LOL!
Are there hernias in heaven?
I can see a push for him to be canned in this lifetime. :>)
This is happening in our neck of the woods, we may go...
https://thomasaquinas.edu/news/college-celebrate-canonization-1982-visit-bl-mother-teresa
p.s. I was there to hear her talk at the Thomas Aquinas College commencement of 1982. She spoke so softly everyone was straining to hear her, you could hear a pin drop.
Isn’t there a Shepherd of Hernia......
(Hermas)
:>)
I always said that if anyone ever tried to steal my purse (which contained teaching supplies, Female Supplies, Make-up, Keys, wallet, checkbook, A complete Bible, The US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, Colored Markers, White-Out, stickers, business cards, snacks, and a Swiss Army Knife) they would give themselves a massive HERNIA before they could get very far with it.
And THAT, my friends, is KARMA!
You forgot the kitchen sink....
I also didn’t mention a few other heavy items.
Wow — what a sweet image.
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