Zone1 Proof Mother Teresa was not a saint

[GLASNOST]

..... since Muslim martyrs are people who murder people while committing suicide, the non-Muslim world assumes they end up in hell, not heaven.

And I'm sure that the Muslim world assume that booze and pornography will make sure that non-Muslims will end up in hell, not heaven.

 

[Meriweather]

She did not encourage the people of Calcutta to convert to Christ

One of my favorite stories about Mother Teresa is that she was talking to a good, non-Catholic Christian. She told him the only thing missing was that he is not Catholic. He replied: Mother Teresa, God needs good people outside of the Catholic Church, too.

Mother Teresa responded with three words: "No, He doesn't."

The man could not find any arguments against this, so he became Catholic.

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

Well she didn't give adequate medical care to those people that were suffering in the facilities she opened. That is unsaintly.

 

[GLASNOST]

Well she didn't give adequate medical care to those people that were suffering in the facilities she opened. That is unsaintly.

Good sources say that she didn't provide any medical care at all. She regarded them as sinful heathens whose suffering was a necessary atonement. There were two or even three to a cot and I assume she provided the bare minimum sustenance. That’s all. Everything else was in “God’s hands”. And the money donated to her by do-gooders & royalty was used to build Christian Churches rather than to aid the sufferers languishing in her grubby clutches.

 

[Mister Iggy]

She did not encourage the people of Calcutta to convert to Christ

I watched a doco on her and that was a cult she was running. Not a saint at all. Gave all the money to the Vatican.

 

[Mister Iggy]

Mother Theresa did more to help the poor in ten seconds than most do in a lifetime.

I used to think so too. She whipped herself every night and her followers were encouraged to do so too. Borderline satanic.

 

[Ace Nova]

On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" when she travelled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith."[36] Joseph Langford, MC, founder of her congregation of priests, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, later wrote, "Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa".[37]

She began missionary work with the poor in 1948,[25] replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple, white cotton sari with a blue border. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent several months in Patna to receive basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital and ventured into the slums.[38][39] She founded a school in Motijhil, Calcutta, before she began tending to the poor and hungry.[40] At the beginning of 1949, Mother Teresa was joined in her effort by a group of young women, and she laid the foundation for a new religious community helping the "poorest among the poor".[41]

Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials, including the prime minister.[42] Mother Teresa wrote in her diary that her first year was fraught with difficulty. With no income, she begged for food and supplies and experienced doubt, loneliness and the temptation to return to the comfort of convent life during these early months:

Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today, I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then, the comfort of Loreto [her former congregation] came to tempt me. "You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again", the Tempter kept on saying. ... Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come.[43]

Missionaries of Charity in traditional saris
On 7 October 1950, Mother Teresa received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation, which would become the Missionaries of Charity.[44] In her words, it would care for "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone".[45]

In 1952, Mother Teresa opened her first hospice with help from Calcutta officials. She converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, free for the poor, and renamed it Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday).[46] Those brought to the home received medical attention and the opportunity to die with dignity in accordance with their faith: Muslims were to read the Quran, Hindus received water from the Ganges, and Catholics received extreme unction.[47] "A beautiful death", Mother Teresa said, "is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted."[47]

Nirmal Hriday, Mother Teresa's Calcutta hospice, in 2007
She opened a hospice for those with leprosy, calling it Shanti Nagar (City of Peace).[48] The Missionaries of Charity established leprosy-outreach clinics throughout Calcutta, providing medication, dressings and food.[49] The Missionaries of Charity took in an increasing number of homeless children; in 1955, Mother Teresa opened Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth.[50]

The congregation began to attract recruits and donations, and by the 1960s it had opened hospices, orphanages and leper houses throughout India. Mother Teresa then expanded the congregation abroad, opening a house in Venezuela in 1965 with five sisters.[51] Houses followed in Italy (Rome), Tanzania and Austria in 1968, and, during the 1970s, the congregation opened houses and foundations in the United States and dozens of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.[52]

The Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded in 1963, and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in 1976. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. Responding to requests by many priests, in 1981, Mother Teresa founded the Corpus Christi Movement for Priests[53] and with Joseph Langford founded the Missionaries of Charity Fathers in 1984 to combine the vocational aims of the Missionaries of Charity with the resources of the priesthood.[54]

By 1997, the 13-member Calcutta congregation had grown to more than 4,000 sisters who managed orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centres worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, the disabled, the aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine.[55] By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries.[56]

International charity​

Mother Teresa said, "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."[4]

Fluent in five languages – Bengali,[57] Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi – she made occasional trips outside India for humanitarian reasons.[58] These included, in 1971, a visit with four of her sisters, to Troubles-era Belfast. Her suggestion that the conditions she had found justified an ongoing mission was the cause of some embarrassment.[59] Reportedly under pressure from senior clergy, who believed "the missionary traffic should be in other direction", and despite local welcome and support, she and her sisters abruptly left the city in 1973.[60][61]

At the height of the Siege of Beirut in 1982, Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.[62] Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the hospital to evacuate the young patients.[63]

When Eastern Europe experienced increased openness in the late 1980s, Mother Teresa expanded her efforts to Communist countries which had rejected the Missionaries of Charity. She began dozens of projects, undeterred by criticism of her stands against abortion and divorce: "No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work". She visited Armenia after the 1988 earthquake[64] and met with Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov.[65]

Mother Teresa travelled to assist the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl and earthquake victims in Armenia.[66][67][68] In 1991 she returned to Albania for the first time, opening a Missionaries of Charity Brothers home in Tirana.[69]

By 1996, the Missionaries of Charity operated 517 missions in over 100 countries.[70] The number of sisters in the Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands, serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centres worldwide. The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx area of New York City, and by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country.[71]

Mother Teresa - Wikipedia

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[Carl in Michigan]

She did not encourage the people of Calcutta to convert to Christ

To an outsider (me) she SEEMS closer to the Jerusalem church of God who gave up all their possessions. The difference is the Jerusalem Church preached the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Other than that, I know NOTHING about her and really don't care. "Let the dead bury their dead"