Mother Teresa

[bjgrazi]

Has she been made a Saint?

 

[VirtuallyMe]

No she hasn't

I think she needs some miracles in her name- and I'm not sure how the current pope is on saints... John Paul II liked Saints

 

[runwad]

No

 

[bjgrazi]

Thank you.

 

[Laura]

No but she's been canonized.

You mean beatified. To be canonized is to be made a saint.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

No but she's been canonized.

Actually she has been Beatified (the process before becoming a Saint) not canonized (the processs of becoming a Saint after all Beatification requirements met and Pope approves)

LOL posted this while Laura was posting too...

 

[Laura]

Actually she has been Beatified (the process before becoming a Saint) not canonized (the processs of becoming a Saint after all Beatification requirements met and Pope approves)

LOL posted this while Laura was posting too...

 

[mickeyfan2]

Not a Saint yet but I hear she is on the fast track!

 

[miss missy]

Well she is a saint to me she is my idol!!

 

[Laura]

Well she is a saint to me she is my idol!!

She truly was an awesome person. To be beatified is really something, too. It takes a long time to be canonized.

 

[Cool-Beans]

No, but she will be.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

No she hasn't

I think she needs some miracles in her name- and I'm not sure how the current pope is on saints... John Paul II liked Saints

Someone asked this when we were at the Vatican in November & the tour guide said that the present Pope is not "pushing" for her like the late Pope. I hope it happens in my lifetime.
I have a beautiful picture of her walking through the airport....she was so tiny and accomplished so many GIANT things.

 

[PaulaSB12]

She truly was an awesome person. To be beatified is really something, too. It takes a long time to be canonized.

Sorry but she is not awesome, whether she gets pronounced a saint by the church she really wasn't one
http://www.indiastar.com/DhiruShah.htm
http://macintyre.com/content/view/533/105/

http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featpostel_56_p.htm
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/

http://www.slate.com/id/2090083/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tUuA7WBRE

What kind of rule is it that people dying in her home for the dying that they HAVE to stay in bed, to have no pain relief and no medical care, they HAVE to use a communal toilet with no privacy and NOT be allowed to see friends and family!
How about being friends with the Haitia militia.

Mother Teresa of course, was an old friend of the Haiti militia. She and the notorious Duvalier family -- who used to "rule" with the help of their private army the Tonton Macoutes -- had a tremendous mutual attraction. When she visited Haiti as the guest of the Duvaliers (to receive the Haitian Legion d'Honneur) she heaped paeans on Madame Duvalier who not only had milked millions off the state coffers, but was also an instrument of torture. Mother said to Michele Duvalier, "Madame President, the country vibrates with your life work." She also added that she had never seen "the poor people so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me."


Susan Shields, formerly a senior nun with the order, recalled that one year there was roughly $50m in the bank account held by the New York office alone. Much of the money, she complained, sat in banks while workers in the homes were obliged to reuse blunt needles. The order has stopped reusing needles, but the poor care remains pervasive. One nurse told me of a case earlier this year where staff knew a patient had typhoid but made no effort to protect volunteers or other patients. "The sense was that God will provide and if the worst happens - it is God's will."

 

[Laura]

Sorry but she is not awesome, whether she gets pronounced a saint by the church she really wasn't one
http://www.indiastar.com/DhiruShah.htm
http://macintyre.com/content/view/533/105/

http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featpostel_56_p.htm
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/

http://www.slate.com/id/2090083/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tUuA7WBRE

What kind of rule is it that people dying in her home for the dying that they HAVE to stay in bed, to have no pain relief and no medical care, they HAVE to use a communal toilet with no privacy and NOT be allowed to see friends and family!
How about being friends with the Haitia militia.

Mother Teresa of course, was an old friend of the Haiti militia. She and the notorious Duvalier family -- who used to "rule" with the help of their private army the Tonton Macoutes -- had a tremendous mutual attraction. When she visited Haiti as the guest of the Duvaliers (to receive the Haitian Legion d'Honneur) she heaped paeans on Madame Duvalier who not only had milked millions off the state coffers, but was also an instrument of torture. Mother said to Michele Duvalier, "Madame President, the country vibrates with your life work." She also added that she had never seen "the poor people so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me."


Susan Shields, formerly a senior nun with the order, recalled that one year there was roughly $50m in the bank account held by the New York office alone. Much of the money, she complained, sat in banks while workers in the homes were obliged to reuse blunt needles. The order has stopped reusing needles, but the poor care remains pervasive. One nurse told me of a case earlier this year where staff knew a patient had typhoid but made no effort to protect volunteers or other patients. "The sense was that God will provide and if the worst happens - it is God's will."

Yeah, I read all about that after she died. The Catholic Church also listened to Christopher Hutchens make his case against her before she was beatified.

I don't know if you realize, but Mother Teresa was not a nurse or a doctor, she was a missionary nun feeding the poor and caring for the sick and dying. Among those duties are also converting the unbelievers to Catholicism.

Was she perfect? No. She was a human being. She had thousands of nuns in dozens of countries in the Missionaries of Charity and wanted to raise money for her charity, therefore she dealt with some seedy characters. She believed in things I don't agree with (I'm for contraception and abortion rights).

But unless you can tell me she didn't give up all her worldy goods, dedicate her life to God and helping the poor, and instead lived a life of luxury eating steak and lobster in a mansion, I'll still consider her an awesome person who did more for people in a day than I'll do my whole life.