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Latest comment: 10 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion
As i was going through the Life of this lady i got to know about her hipocrasy, propaganda to convert lower caste Hindu people in India to Christanity.She has been portrayed by western media as gaurdian angel for the pople who can't afford basic healthcare and those who have serious diseases which can't be cured lifelong. But the thing is she is the one that peoplle got severe health issues She used to run a small hospital in West Bengal,India.there they reuse the needles for all people aslo she getting so much amount as donation across the world but she never used them for peoples welfare only funded for a bank which is known for its scams.Also not shown any hand in helping on the natuaral disasters hit nearby their place only spreading her religious faiths to poor people then converting them . Around 29,000 died in that hospital for this her answer is "god knows where they are" that time she use to export human bones to western countries. you can refer to this youtube video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJ0GfyNaGY&pp=ygURY29udmVydGVyIHRlcmVzYSA%3D). 160.20.123.9 (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
No need, the article already covers the inadequate care which she provided and her alleged cruelty:
"According to a paper by Canadian academics Serge Larivée, Geneviève Chénard and Carole Sénéchal, Mother Teresa's clinics received millions of dollars in donations but lacked medical care, systematic diagnosis, necessary nutrition, and sufficient analgesics for those in pain.[1]
"In the opinion of the three academics, "Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross".[2] It was said that the additional money might have transformed the health of the city's poor by creating advanced palliative care facilities.[3][4]"
"One of Mother Teresa's most outspoken critics was English journalist Christopher Hitchens, who wrote in a 2003 article:
"This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."[5]
Hitchens accused her of hypocrisy for choosing advanced treatment for her heart condition.[6][7] Hitchens said that "her intention was not to help people" and that she lied to donors about how their contributions were used. "It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn't working to alleviate poverty. She was working to expand the number of Catholics. She pursued, 'I'm not a social worker. I don't do it for this reason. I do it for Christ. I do it for the church'".[8]"
"Fr. Des Wilson, who had hosted her in Belfast in 1971,[9] argued that "Mother Theresa was content to pick up the sad pieces left by a vicious political and economic system" and he noted that hers was a fate very different to that of Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador. While she got the Nobel Prize, "Romero, who attacked the causes of misery as well as picking up the pieces, was shot in the head".[10]" Dimadick (talk) 00:24, 26 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
I actually met her and had visited her orphanage in India, which was very clean and organized. However, it could have been a token facility for visitors from overseas. I know there is a lot of controversy of how people in India did not know who she was. However, Dorothy Day is probably the equivalent to the U.S. version of Mother Theresa or an analogy to Martin Luther King Jr., but I doubt anyone reading in the U.S. has ever heard of Dorothy Day. Mother Theresa may have been a scammer, but issue of Indian people not knowing of her is probably analogous to the issue of U.S. people not knowing of Dorothy Day. Starlighsky (talk) 03:17, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Under the "Spiritual Life" header it is written that "Privately, Mother Teresa experienced doubts and struggle in her religious beliefs which lasted nearly 50 years, until the end of her life."
It's true that she faced doubt but I wouldn't write it as authoritatively myself. Adding "**which may have** lasted nearly 50 years" would fix this imo.
Here's a quote from the article that demonstrates the nuance: “Let’s say you’re married and you fall in love and you believe with all your heart that marriage is a sacrament. And your wife, God forbid, gets a stroke and she’s comatose. And you will never experience her love again. It’s like loving and caring for a person for 50 years and once in a while you complain to your spiritual director, but you know on the deepest level that she loves you even though she’s silent and that what you’re doing makes sense. Mother Teresa knew that what she was doing made sense.” Sourcerer901 (talk) 04:22, 16 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Seems dishonest of the article to not be dismissive of criticism and to not incorporate it within other sections. Admittedly, the article is in poor shape, but my point still stands. Sahib-e-Qiran, EasternShah 21:39, 20 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
While both her parents were born in present day Kosovo, they were recent migrants from the Mirdita region in present day Albania, a Catholic stronghold. To say she originated from a Kosovar family is deeply misleading, since both parents have their roots in present day Albania. Both families hail from Mirdita. Catholics comprise less than 2 percent of the Kosovo population (though ironically they were all Catholics before the Ottoman empire). ~2026-22445-91 (talk) 03:49, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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