10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa; She was no Saint

Top 10 Misconceptions About Mother Teresa. Hint: She Was no Saint
Top 10 Misconceptions About Mother Teresa. Hint: She Was no Saint

Top 10 Reasons Mother Teresa Was No Saint: 10 Misconceptions about Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa known and celebrated worldwide as the Albanian Nun who received a calling to work with the poor in the slums of Calcutta.  Even now, many years after her death, her name is synonymous with charity, with love and care of the poor.  She was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace and, shortly after her death the Vatican started an accelerated process for her canonization.

Significant controversy surrounds her life and her missionary work.  Here we list the top 10 reasons why Mother Teresa was

not a saint and why claims about her life and work should be treated with caution.

10Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying provides abysmal medical care.

Mother Teresa was no saint because her home for the dying provided terrible medical care

9Mother Teresa’s goal was missionary work not helping the poor.

Mother Teresa would rather be a missionary rather than help poor people

8Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity baptized the dying without their permission.

Mother Teresa’s minions baptized people without their permission

7Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Organization has shady finances

Mother Teresa’s finances allegedly were not above board

6Mother Teresa took money from known fraudsters and refused to refund it – even when this refusal caused real harm to innocent people.

Mother Teresa took money from fraudsters

Mother Teresa was happy to accept donations from any source – even when the source in question was a reprehensible con-man.  She received significant donations from Charles Keating, a leading American catholic and anti-pornography protestor who was convicted and imprisoned for fraud when his Savings and Loan Association collapsed leaving 23,000 investors with worthless bonds and from Robert Maxwell who stole £450m from the pension fund of his employees.  Although it appears that she was not aware of their activities prior to the scandals association with the men she showed little concern for the suffering their actions caused; she believed that the donation of funds could salve the conscience of those who donated them.

Mother Teresa wrote to the judge requesting leniency for Keating because he had made donations to the Missionaries of Charity.  The Deputy District Attorney wrote to her explaining exactly what Keating had done in defrauding small investors of their life savings.  Mother Teresa refused to reply to that letter.  Sadly because of the shady finances of her organization it is impossible to tell whether the money was put to good use which would at least provide some small comfort to the people whose lives were ruined.  From the poor conditions in her House of the Dying and the lack of support given to missions worldwide it would seem these people lost their money for no good reason.

5As well as consorting with fraudsters Mother Teresa was friends with the leaders of some of the most reprehensible political regimes in the world.

Mother Teresa associated with really shady characters. Duvalier regime in Haiti.

4Mother Teresa had a hard line stance on abortion, contraception and divorce, except where her Friends were concerned.

Mother Teresa was a hard-line pro-lifer

3Mother Teresa was rarely in Calcutta preferring to fly around the world to promote her opinions. 

Mother Teresa the real Flying Nun. She’d rather be up in the air than on the ground in Calcutta helping the poor

2Mother Teresa liked to be seen to help but provided very little actual help.

Mother Teresa like to promote a certain image

1There have been no miracles attributed to Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa did not perform any miracles.