Mother Teresa to be made a saint

[Berniewood Hogan]

Mother Teresa to be made a saint, Pope Francis announces - BBC News

Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who "worked with the poor" in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta), is to be declared a saint on 4 September, Pope Francis has announced.

• She ran hospitals (If an institution with a 40% mortality rate is actually classifiable as a hospital) like prisons, particularly cruel and unhygienic prisons at that. Children in her care were tied to their beds to prevent them misbehaving. She let the terminally ill (and even those with illnesses that would have been curable if her 'hospitals' were run better) die without pain relief because suffering bought them closer to Jesus
  
  
• Most of the money donated to her causes was filtered back into the (already exceedingly rich) Catholic Church, or used to expand her 'charities' to new regions, rather than actually helping those in her care, many of whom were starving and lacking basic medical care... Basically she didn't love the poor and hungry, she loved poverty and hunger, she saw suffering as a grace and despite being lauded as a humanitarian given the fame and donations she had at her disposal did relatively little practical good.
  
  
• She befriended and defended a genocidal dictator, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, and accepted donations from him of money extorted from the very poor she was supposedly helping as well as drug dealing and body part trafficking.
  
  
• She accepted and refused to return profits of criminal activity. Including one and a quarter million US dollars in cash and use of a private jet from convicted racketeer and fraudster Charles Keating who stole over $3 Billion from US taxpayers in the 80's and 90's... Upon his conviction not only did Mother Teresa and The Catholic Church refuse to return the money they had received from him, Mother Teresa actually tried to use her influence to have him let off or at least sentenced leniently.
  
  
• She publicly defended known pedophiles from within the clergy, including trying to use her influence to have leniency shown in sentencing of convicted child rapist Donald McGuire and campaigning to have him reinstated to the priesthood and allowing him to continue his work... even though this work would inevitably bring him into regular contact with children.
  
  
• Because so much of the money she raised went to the church not the poor she hated waste in her hospitals, insisting staff reused needles until they were too blunt to continue using... even in known HIV high risk areas.
  
  
• She directed a mere 7% of the monies her charities raised directly those she was supposedly helping... With much of the rest ending up in secret bank accounts and as yet still unaccounted for.
  
  
• She routinely baptised those dying under her care regardless of their own wishes or religious beliefs.
  
  
• She opposed both abortion and contraception, even in cases of incest, abuse and rape.
  
  
• She praised and supported Ireland's anti-divorce laws... even in cases where spousal abuse was apparent, forcing countless women to live out lives of slavery and torture.

In 2002, the Vatican recognised as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, after the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor.

Some of Besra's medical staff and Besra's husband said that conventional medical treatment had eradicated the tumor.[128] Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who told The New York Times he had treated Besra, said that the cyst was not cancer at all but a cyst caused by tuberculosis. He said, "It was not a miracle.... She took medicines for nine months to one year."[129] According to Besra's husband, "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle."[130]

Besra's medical records contain sonograms, prescriptions, and physicians' notes could provide evidence on whether the cure was a miracle or not. Besra has claimed that Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity is withholding them. The officials at the Balurghat Hospital where Besra was seeking medical treatment have claimed that they are being pressured by the Catholic order to declare the cure a miracle.[130]

 

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[Black Cobain]

Only Catholic I respect is Marcus Garvey, now that is someone worthy of sainthood

 

[dtownreppin214]

I think it's appropriate to tag the Ghost of Christopher Hitchens aka @ThreeLetterAgency in this thread.

 

[Soon]

She did what all foul missionaries did, especially the ones who described Africans, Indians, and Indo-Aryans as "savages".

I'm sure she has done much, much, much worse. There is something really slimy about Mother Theresa.

@Elle Driver
@Milk N Cookies
@AVthaPHARAOH

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Insane how revered she was when she lived...

 

[y que]

current pope is a joke

just want to be popular

 

[The American]

I thought she was the model for what we all should be until Hitchens crushed her buildings. Now Idk. Are there simply no good people in this world Every mfer has skeletons in they closet. Erryone.

 

[TransJenner]

Catholics are being deceived with these false idols


And the pope


Jesus only

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Didn't she used to be a whore?


Gotta respect her for rising above her station

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

I suspect there are worse saints...

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I was raised catholic and I had no idea she did any of that foul shyt. I always had a feeling, though.
Her smile was

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

I suspect there are worse saints...

SAINT PATRICK HAS GIVEN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER, BROTHER!

 

[Red Shield]

Hell you expect.. catholic church has always been and always will be slime

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

SAINT PATRICK HAS GIVEN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER, BROTHER!