Mother Teresa...Saint?

When one hears the name mother Teresa, we think of a Roman Catholic nun rescuing the poor of Calcutta and her organization, ‘the Missionaries of Charity,’ setting up houses to serve the poor all around the world. Although Mother Teresa’s intentions and heart were in the right place in her quest to help the poorest of the poor, there were also many flaws which came with her devotion and religious beliefs.

Mother Teresa and her charity started out as a noble cause, reaching out to the poor, not with material goods, but with love and emotional caring, (ew) which in the beginning was most likely, all she could give. However as she received more publicity, more people wanted to reach out and donate money to go towards the poor (including the poor themselves), this is where Mother Teresa’s stubbornness got in the way of what was truly, in the medical sense right for the poor. She glorified suffering and poverty to the point of encouraging it, and thus promoted blind acceptance to the misery of man-made laws. In Haiti, to keep the spirit of poverty, the sisters reused needles until they became blunt. Seeing the pain caused by the blunt needles, some of the volunteers offered to provide more needles, but the sisters refused. Mother Teresa followed the doctrines and the beliefs of the church so profoundly that the poor suffered greater than they should have. According to Susan Shield who was part of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity for nine and a half years the sisters were not allowed to show any attachment to people they may help and also must live in poverty themselves. Twisted much? Shields’ was one of the sisters who sent thank-you letters and receipt to the donors, and stated “We wrote receipts for checks of $50,000 and more on a regular basis.” All this money was directly deposited into the bank. The sisters were still expected to beg for food to give to the poor despite the millions of dollars sitting in these banks all over the world. There were 3,000 children dying in Africa of starvation a day, however Mother Teresa refused to use the money to buy meals for them.

Nobody knows exactly where all this money went to because Mother Teresa does not follow many of the rules and regulations of other countries.Indian law requires charitable organizations to publish their accounts. Mother Teresa's organization ignores this prescription.

However one must take into consideration that Mother Teresa’s cause was purely religious, and an A&E biography on her even states, “The real nature of what she was trying to do, was religious, and she was not a social worker.” Mother Teresa pointed this out several times in various interviews however many people failed to listen. “She was bearing witness for what she believed in and for what was right.” That was her strength, to be unembarrassed, and even unembarrassable.

Mother Teresa was no saint, she was a face for the Vatican state, which included her lasting friendship with the pope and her own little cozy house in the middle of it all.