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u/James_Locke · 21 pointsr/worldnews

Point by point refutation of the issues that I see above (aka most of them). (ps, if you want a balanced bio read this)

> 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

She ran hospices, not hospitals. And she ran them in the poorest parts of the world. They are literally called "Houses of the Dying". The children being tied down is true, but they were developmentally disabled children who were a danger to themselves and padded rooms were not really available and often these children could flail and fall out of their beds at night. It was not the ideal solution admittedly. The question of pain relief is odd. Medications in calcutta were a luxury item that mostly uneducated nuns were not trained in dispensing. But on top of that, most of the dying were literally homeless and living in gutters and trash piles when they were brought to the Houses of the Dying. They were given company and were allowed to be ministered in their own faith tradition. This was the minimum care that was being given, not first world hospital or even hospice care.


> 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.

The money she gave to the Church was used for other charitable ventures mostly. She did use the money to expand the number of soup kitchens and hospices yes, but how is helping more people go from a 0 to a 2 a bad thing? You are arguing that it would have been better to get fewer people from a 0 to a 3 or 4 rather than more people from a 0 to 2. As for the latter comment, you clearly dont understand Catholic theology and what redemptive suffering even means.


> 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 money and friendship that she used to start charities in Haiti that she would have otherwise have been locked out of.

> 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.

The money was used for good and the revelations came long after.

> 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.

What is the source for this number? A German magazine? What would they know? What was their source?


> She routinely baptized those dying under her care regardless of their own wishes or religious beliefs.

Never seen any evidence of this. One disgruntled nun who was not connected to the hospices is not good testimony.


> 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.

She is Catholic. Duh... Divorce, abortion, and contraception are all morally wrong in Catholicism. Why would she favor them in any circumstance?

A Missionary of Charity will do more good for humanity in a month than 95% of the posters here will do in their lives. Yet they sit here and shit on them because they are Catholic. Thats just evil. And you know what? These women are willing do die for their cause of helping people. Are you?