What are peoples views about Mother Theresa ?

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 29/08/2010 19:01:10    759378

Saint

fortyfive (Tyrone) - Posts: 5929 - 29/08/2010 19:15:23    759392

and why is this fortyfive

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 29/08/2010 19:21:51    759407

Because I think she is.

Mother Teresa was one of the great servants of humanity. She was an Albanian Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Later on Mother Teresa attained Indian citizenship. Her selfless work among the poverty-stricken people of Kolkata (Calcutta) is an inspiration for people all over the world and she was honored with Nobel Prize for her work.

Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born on August 27, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her father was a successful merchant and she was youngest of the three siblings. At the age of 12, she decided that she wanted to be a missionary and spread the love of Christ. At the age of 18 she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

williewentwell (Tyrone) - Posts: 1712 - 29/08/2010 19:28:04    759417

where did all the money go to that she received in donations , why did she refuse to give pain killers to the dying why did she refuse to give anti biotics to the sick

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 29/08/2010 19:31:35    759422

Good man williewentwell I myself am not religious but she has spent a live time helping the poor and needy in India's slum's she was from a troubled past herself I recall her farther was murdered when she was a young child ,as for money going missing remember the Catholic church is coming down with Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli paintings to name but a few go out side the Vatican city and just outside you'll find disabled people being moved on by the The Carabinieri Priest's walking bye them like something that they scrapped off the shoe, but it was the Nuns that I found were more compassionate . Like nursing Nuns have a vocation unlike other holy or should that be unholy vocations .

fortyfive (Tyrone) - Posts: 5929 - 29/08/2010 19:52:56    759438

Hipster it is not uncommon in medicinal practice for medicinal drug supplies to be conserved when supplies are low, which i assume was the case in Calcutta. eg some argue that there would be no point in giving a dying person drugs if they are very near death and merely postpone the inevitable, when those drugs can maybe be used to help other people who stand a better chance of survival. Likewise, not all illnesses can be cured by anti biotics, and the callous distribution of anti biotics can potentially lead to a bacteria that is resistant to that specific anti biotic.

spiderpig123 (Down) - Posts: 175 - 29/08/2010 20:32:48    759495

One of the more well known agnostics

paddyogall (Mayo) - Posts: 5110 - 29/08/2010 20:33:49    759498

Was converting the orphans to christianity part of the deal?

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 29/08/2010 20:40:20    759507

Brendtheredhand,

Whether you convert to gas or electricity the main thing is that you have power !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 30/08/2010 11:31:30    759844

I seem to remember stories and legends about the Church allegedly helping the poor in Ireland, South America and the Philippines, but it all turned out to be a myth.

The Catholic church likes to keep the populace in poverty, and then sell them the old "trust in God" line.

Unfortunately Bono has done more for the poor of the world than Mother Teresa.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 30/08/2010 15:28:55    760292

Welcome back Patrique, we all really enjoyed your holidays!

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12494 - 30/08/2010 15:33:22    760298

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Welcome back Patrique, we all really enjoyed your holidays!



I was in Calcutta, and then nipped over to the states and bought 4 of Glaziers shopping malls for a couple of grand.

"There may be trouble ahead".

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 30/08/2010 19:54:40    760698

What a twisted and bitter view of a person who gave up personal wealth and social position in order to pursue what she saw as her Vocation in Life. Why do some people feel the need to attack this lady who was a threat to no person or value. She administered to the poor of calcutta and never obtained personal gain from her ministry. Shame on you who would try to demonise such a champion of the poor.

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 30/08/2010 20:51:31    760767

dont worry derryman i sleep easy at night now can you show me the evidence you speak off

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 30/08/2010 21:10:10    760788

derryman. derry.
hear hear . some people are unbelievable some times , mother teresa is a saint its that simple . nothing else to say really .

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 30/08/2010 21:12:52    760796

Here here Derryman !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 30/08/2010 21:27:52    760819

Hipster
You are besmirching the life of a great woman not I. I require no evidence as her story is well known. I accept that she has done great work for many poor. I dont know if she is a saint but I know she was a good person who gave up her life for the poor. I have not heard of any report that suggests she lived a double life squandering the donations to the poor but I have heard the innuendo and vicious rumour that you refer to but I have given it the attention and value it desrves "NONE". I would not knowingly wish to be the devils tool

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 30/08/2010 21:55:51    760858

I once shook her hand, seemed a sound enough ould sort

miketyson (Limerick) - Posts: 2748 - 30/08/2010 21:59:59    760879

Christopher Hitchens published a book in 1997 that offered criticisms of her activities. He accused Mother Teresa of associating with dictators and other powerful but ethically questionable persons in her quest for funding and publicity; intervening on behalf of criminals who had donated money to her causes; eliciting money which did not in fact go to help the poor; and maintaining substandard medical practices in clinics founded by her order

paddyogall (Mayo) - Posts: 5110 - 31/08/2010 10:17:12    760962