Hi Everyone!
I've just skimmed through this thread and find it rather interesting considering that I myself am a catholic and have never heard of these accusations of Mother Theresa.
I guess in my opinion that to call her fraudulent is a bit extreme.
Did mother Teresa herself promise anything will come of the donations or was that the image being portrayed by the church and her
charity organisation?
Issues such as providing contraception are not as easy as it sounds. To whom did Mother Teresa's influence extend to that would grant such a request? To say that providing or not providng it would save and destroy lives respectively is unsubstantiated. What benefit is there in encouraging further sexual intercourse with its introduction?
And of course there is always the question of Why would a potential mother choose to risk bringing a child into a world they can barely survive in themselves unless of course they do live somewhat satisfied lives which relative to many of ours is well below what we consider a descent quality of life (highly unlikely though). These people don't need mother theresa to make this decision.
In regard to the Catholic church, to which she was obviously very devoted to, it rejects abortions of its destruction of life. I'm not sure about this
but I guess they too would be opposed to any restriction (contraception) placed upon the attempt to create life.
Mother Theresa is the closest thing to sainthood in this modern era and of course she was still human. Her faith and religion clearly came before
anything else and when it came to the money are we able to sit and think that she alone handled it all? I seriously don't think so. There was obviously greater influence on her from the church.
Regardless of any criticisms it can never be denied that in helping people she was no fraud and more than anything an inspiration.
