infoman (infoman)
03-16-2005, 02:24 AM
THE $AINTHOOD OF MOTHER TERESA
For the last years thousands upon thousands of Roman Catholic have pressured and asked Pope John Paul 11 to canonize Mother Teresa.
The Roman Catholic Church is doing all she can to accelerate the church procedure, for the sooner Teresa is declared a “saint”, the sooner the church will sell statues, images, relics and all sorts of stuff representing Mother Teresa.
And it seem that their efforts will be successful.
But let us look at all the facts and see if Mother Teresa should be or not a “saint”, let us examine her sainthood.
We all know that Teresa was a well-acclaimed international celebrity, who had strong ties to the who’s who of this world.. She was a Roman Catholic nun who rescued the poor from the streets in Calcutta .
I know that it could be something morally impressive in a life dedicated to charity, but Teresa has also been accused in the past of running her congregation with à theory of poverty, submission and power.
Many former workers and volunteers have denounced the shortcomings and weaknesses of her pseudo-sainthood.
Her Moral Integrity
The testimony of Susan Shields who worked nine and a half years for Teresa’s order is striking. It is a shame that her manuscript had failed to find a publisher
At the time Christopher Hitchen’s book The Missionary Position was released.
Susan writes: “In San Francisco, the sisters were given use of a three-story convent…The sisters…pushed thick mattresses out the windows and removed all the sofas, chairs and curtains…The beautifully constructed house was made to conform to à way of life intended to help the sisters become holy…The heat remained off
All winter in this exceedingly damped house. Several Sisters got TB during the time I lived there”.
Her Financial Integrity;
In one occasion, Mother Teresa accepted $10,000 from John Roger-leader of the MSIA cult (pronounced Messiah) . This man has repeatedly claimed to have à spiritual consciousness that is superior to that of Jesus Christ. Roger’s cult has repeatedly been exposed as corrupt and fanatical .
Christopher Hitchens who has written columns for Vanity Fair and The Nation questions Teresa’s involvement with other personalities.
“ Then there was her business dealings. How did she come to hear of Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln savings and Loan Company, now in jail for the biggest fraud in American history? In return for half a million dollars and the use of Keating private jet, Mother Teresa showered blessings on this gentleman and gave him a personal crucifix which he used as they say to enhance his credibility.”
The judge who presided the trial was the later notorious Judge Lance Ito (remember the O.J. Simpson trial) During the course of the trial, Teresa wrote to the court seeking clemency for Keating. In his capacity as Deputy District attorney for Los Angeles, Mr. Paul Turley wrote back to Mother. Here is à brief excerpt of his letter..
“Mr. Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more then $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000. You urge Judge Ito to look into his heart—as he sentenced Charles Keating—and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you…I submit that Jesus would promptly and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners.”
Three years later, Mr. Turley had yet to receive a reply from Teresa.
You may also wonder how Teresa was distributing the immense quantities of money that were donated to her order of nuns.. Susan Shields writes:
“The order’s bank account was already the size of a great fortune and increased with every postal service delivery. Around $50 million had collected in one checking account in the Bronx. The donations were deposited in the bank but had no effect on our ascetic lives or on the lives of the poor we were trying to help. Our constitution forbade us to beg for more than we needed but the money in the bank was treated as if did not exist.”
Her Religious integrity;
Mother Teresa and her co-workers never tried to convert to Jesus Christ the dying folks for whom they cared, on the contrary Teresa declared, “If I’m coming face to face with God, we accept him in our lives, then we become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are.. What God is in your mind, you must accept.”
I do not know if Teresa changed during the last years of her life but here is an interesting account of what happened to her.
THE archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D’Souza declared that mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the latter days of her life.
The exorcism took place in a hospital where she had gone for cardiac problems. The Archbishop who himself had been hospitalized at the same facility and shared the same doctor as Teresa noticed that while Teresa was calm during the day, at night she appeared extremely agitated, pulling off wires and other monitoring equipment stuck to her body.
Because he believed Teresa might be under the attack of the veil one, he offered to arrange an exorcism for the elderly nun. She agreed.
So he called a priest, a holy man in Calcutta and told him “Please say the prayer of exorcism over Mother Teresa.” And he got a shock and said “shall I pray and should I drive out the devil if it’s in there?” I said “Yes you do.” But he says “What will the devil do to me?”
I said to him “You command the devil to go if he’s there, in the name of the church as archbishop I command you to go and do it.”
After the exorcism was over, the archbishop said, “Mother Teresa slept like a baby.”
D”Souza emphasized that other great religious leaders have faced similar challenges, including Jesus Christ.
Sister Nirmala who now heads the order Missionaries of Charity added that Mother Teresa is with God, now in His presence she has more power with God there she is very very powerful
CNN.Com,/World September 05,2001 by Sandra Bindra, CNN New Delhi Bureau.
In the movie The Exorcist, of which some psychologists have said that it is doubtful if anyone could see the movie without suffering mental and emotional damage, the Roman Catholic priest is a key figure, and has a major role in the movie, and in the Roman Catholic Church an exorcist is a member of the second highest of the 4 former minor orders.
Although exorcism is not taught in the Bible, the word exorcist is only found once in the Bible. It is used to describe the work of certain vagabond Jews, religious heretics who got into trouble by saying , “we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And the evil spirit answered and said ; “Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you who are you,?
So is Teresa a saint an unscrupulous ambitious person, a profiteer, or is she the victim of the Roman Catholic church propaganda and of its greedy $pirit?
For the last years thousands upon thousands of Roman Catholic have pressured and asked Pope John Paul 11 to canonize Mother Teresa.
The Roman Catholic Church is doing all she can to accelerate the church procedure, for the sooner Teresa is declared a “saint”, the sooner the church will sell statues, images, relics and all sorts of stuff representing Mother Teresa.
And it seem that their efforts will be successful.
But let us look at all the facts and see if Mother Teresa should be or not a “saint”, let us examine her sainthood.
We all know that Teresa was a well-acclaimed international celebrity, who had strong ties to the who’s who of this world.. She was a Roman Catholic nun who rescued the poor from the streets in Calcutta .
I know that it could be something morally impressive in a life dedicated to charity, but Teresa has also been accused in the past of running her congregation with à theory of poverty, submission and power.
Many former workers and volunteers have denounced the shortcomings and weaknesses of her pseudo-sainthood.
Her Moral Integrity
The testimony of Susan Shields who worked nine and a half years for Teresa’s order is striking. It is a shame that her manuscript had failed to find a publisher
At the time Christopher Hitchen’s book The Missionary Position was released.
Susan writes: “In San Francisco, the sisters were given use of a three-story convent…The sisters…pushed thick mattresses out the windows and removed all the sofas, chairs and curtains…The beautifully constructed house was made to conform to à way of life intended to help the sisters become holy…The heat remained off
All winter in this exceedingly damped house. Several Sisters got TB during the time I lived there”.
Her Financial Integrity;
In one occasion, Mother Teresa accepted $10,000 from John Roger-leader of the MSIA cult (pronounced Messiah) . This man has repeatedly claimed to have à spiritual consciousness that is superior to that of Jesus Christ. Roger’s cult has repeatedly been exposed as corrupt and fanatical .
Christopher Hitchens who has written columns for Vanity Fair and The Nation questions Teresa’s involvement with other personalities.
“ Then there was her business dealings. How did she come to hear of Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln savings and Loan Company, now in jail for the biggest fraud in American history? In return for half a million dollars and the use of Keating private jet, Mother Teresa showered blessings on this gentleman and gave him a personal crucifix which he used as they say to enhance his credibility.”
The judge who presided the trial was the later notorious Judge Lance Ito (remember the O.J. Simpson trial) During the course of the trial, Teresa wrote to the court seeking clemency for Keating. In his capacity as Deputy District attorney for Los Angeles, Mr. Paul Turley wrote back to Mother. Here is à brief excerpt of his letter..
“Mr. Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more then $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000. You urge Judge Ito to look into his heart—as he sentenced Charles Keating—and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you…I submit that Jesus would promptly and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners.”
Three years later, Mr. Turley had yet to receive a reply from Teresa.
You may also wonder how Teresa was distributing the immense quantities of money that were donated to her order of nuns.. Susan Shields writes:
“The order’s bank account was already the size of a great fortune and increased with every postal service delivery. Around $50 million had collected in one checking account in the Bronx. The donations were deposited in the bank but had no effect on our ascetic lives or on the lives of the poor we were trying to help. Our constitution forbade us to beg for more than we needed but the money in the bank was treated as if did not exist.”
Her Religious integrity;
Mother Teresa and her co-workers never tried to convert to Jesus Christ the dying folks for whom they cared, on the contrary Teresa declared, “If I’m coming face to face with God, we accept him in our lives, then we become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are.. What God is in your mind, you must accept.”
I do not know if Teresa changed during the last years of her life but here is an interesting account of what happened to her.
THE archbishop of Calcutta, Henry D’Souza declared that mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the latter days of her life.
The exorcism took place in a hospital where she had gone for cardiac problems. The Archbishop who himself had been hospitalized at the same facility and shared the same doctor as Teresa noticed that while Teresa was calm during the day, at night she appeared extremely agitated, pulling off wires and other monitoring equipment stuck to her body.
Because he believed Teresa might be under the attack of the veil one, he offered to arrange an exorcism for the elderly nun. She agreed.
So he called a priest, a holy man in Calcutta and told him “Please say the prayer of exorcism over Mother Teresa.” And he got a shock and said “shall I pray and should I drive out the devil if it’s in there?” I said “Yes you do.” But he says “What will the devil do to me?”
I said to him “You command the devil to go if he’s there, in the name of the church as archbishop I command you to go and do it.”
After the exorcism was over, the archbishop said, “Mother Teresa slept like a baby.”
D”Souza emphasized that other great religious leaders have faced similar challenges, including Jesus Christ.
Sister Nirmala who now heads the order Missionaries of Charity added that Mother Teresa is with God, now in His presence she has more power with God there she is very very powerful
CNN.Com,/World September 05,2001 by Sandra Bindra, CNN New Delhi Bureau.
In the movie The Exorcist, of which some psychologists have said that it is doubtful if anyone could see the movie without suffering mental and emotional damage, the Roman Catholic priest is a key figure, and has a major role in the movie, and in the Roman Catholic Church an exorcist is a member of the second highest of the 4 former minor orders.
Although exorcism is not taught in the Bible, the word exorcist is only found once in the Bible. It is used to describe the work of certain vagabond Jews, religious heretics who got into trouble by saying , “we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And the evil spirit answered and said ; “Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you who are you,?
So is Teresa a saint an unscrupulous ambitious person, a profiteer, or is she the victim of the Roman Catholic church propaganda and of its greedy $pirit?