As difficult as it may be for westerners to conceive, there is such places where children simply died of undernourishment, typical ailments, and civil strife.
The third most populated city in India called Calcutta, that was once the capital of the infamous East India Trading Company, would be among that shameful list.
So before a headmistress of Loreto contemplated the plight of those poor citizens, the population was under great turmoil since the end of the Second World War. The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the outbreak of Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946 plunged the city into despair and horror (Kathryn, 1997). This scene would increasingly disturb Mother Teresa, a nun of the Sisters of Loreto (Clucas, 1988). Mother Teresa, a former Macedonian of Albanian decent, in her early years was fascinated by the stories of the work of missionaries in Bengal.
She quickly became convinced that she would commit to leading the religious life (Clucas, 1988). She felt compelled to leave her sisters, get an Indian citizenship and in 1949 would lay the foundation in which would establish a new religious community to serve the “poorest, of the poor.” These noble efforts where quickly gaining the attention of the Prime MinisterPandit Jawarharlal Nehru of India, who expressed his appreciation (Williams, 2002). The altruism of Mother Teresa for the destitute of that sorry city, soon fell under a shadow that few had the decency to question. In 1969, the usually neutral and objective British Broadcasting Corporation let that old opportunist and fraud ,Malcolm Muggeridge pay a visit to Theresa’s Home of the Dying,
and witnessed TV’s first ‘miracle’ (Biema, 2007).
Now this is a funny story: When the crew set out to film the site, they were given very sensitive film by Kodak which they had not tested yet. When the shoot was over, they were certain editing would be a challenge considering how dark Teresa’s Home of the Dying was. Alas, the film was bright and full of such detail that before the camera man Ken Macmillan exclaimed three cheers for Kodak, Muggeridge burst out, “Its a miracle, that’s Divine Light!” A star was born.
To the astonishment of any person of worldly sense, her speech at her award ceremony for the Nobel Peace prize, in which she was nominated by the Nobel committee for her services to the poor in 1979, she singled out abortion as the “single greatest destroyer of world peace” (Teresa, 1979 ). Thus began her crusade against abortion and contraception.
Defining her role in 1996, where Mother Teresa demanded that the architecture of Ireland’s constitution covering divorce and re-marriage, to be outlawed (which her side narrowly lost). (Hitchens, 2003). The Nobel prize in consequence gave weight to her opinions on the political scale, for instance her visit to Haiti to receive the country’s Legion award, she praised the Duvalier Family who ran the country autocratically, for their “great love of the poor”. Ignoring the harsh dictatorship of the Duvalier, and their methods of using Tontons Macoutes (Bogeymen) (the translation is also from Hitchens). The Macoutes helped maintain order in Haiti by terrorizing the populace through intimidation, torture and brute force which would now, thanks to “Mother Teresa”, go unnoticed (Hitchens, 2003).
It was becoming clear that her intentions politically became less about helping the poor and more about assimilating them into Catholicism. Indeed, she developed the mindset that the poor couldn’t be helped to move up in their station in life. She cared more about the state of their “divine souls”. (Editor’s note– She claimed she saw the “beauty in their suffering” in regards to the poor. Hardly the candidate I would want in my corner!-EvS)
Mother Teresa: good or evil? Debate (part 1)
Quoting Teresa’s words at a 1981 press conference in which was asked: “Do you teach the poor to
endure their lot?” She replied: “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people” (Cherry,2004)
Ironically, she would seek medical attention at renowned medical facilities in the United
States rather than subject herself to the care of her own medically starved facilities that her own
patients shared in India (Hitchens,2003).
After her death, Pope Benedict XVI mentioned Teresa of Calcutta (another name for “Mother Teresa” three times in his first encyclical (A letter from the Papacy sent to his Bishops or the general public to explain his doctrine)and he also used her life to clarify the theme, and purpose of the Roman Catholic Church: “In the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta we have a clear illustration of the fact that time devoted to God in prayer not only does not detract from effective and loving service to our neighbor but is in fact the inexhaustible source of that service” (Benedict, 2005).
Mother Teresa: good or evil? Debate (part 2)
So, the poor where the raw material for the church to cultivate a new harvest of simple minded believers, and regaining legitimacy of the Roman Catholic Church as a bastion of charity and good will towards men. Not to mention relieving the poor conscience of the West who know at least, someone, somewhere, is taking care of the third world.
The Author of this report is disappointed that there is no hell for this cynical, ignorant, and cruel woman, who has so much suffering and misery on her sorry conscious. Though it may be difficult to prove that she was being Machiavellian in her approach in campaigning for the poor and representing the Roman Catholic Church, yet who can say how many lives were lost over her ignorance and fundamentalist ideologies. It’s a great insult to the integrity of the honest altruist who sacrifices daily for the wretched of the world. And yet, the media is mute. She and her supporters have successfully conned the west, leaving her one miracle short of a Canonization to Sainthood (Feister,Zimmerman, 2013). Brothers and sisters, Comrades and friends, let this be a warning to demonstrate how one can get away with anything, if you just build your lies on the foundation of charity or divine authority. But don’t take my word for it: As Pope Leo X said, “How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.”(Gauvin, n.a.) We do indeed.