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mashed in maryland 7:18 Wed Mar 16
Should Mother Teresa be made into a saint?

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/16/mother-teresa-should-not-be-made-a-saint-and-heres-why-5754127/

This article doesn't think so.

Your thoughts, WHO'ers?

Discuss.

cholo 8:51 Thu Mar 17
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David St Hubbins the patron saint of quality footwear.

Saul Bollox 8:46 Thu Mar 17
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St Crispin and Crispinian the patron saint of cobblers, which is what religion is, cobblers.

yngwies Cat 6:51 Thu Mar 17
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My favourite Saint, apart from Simon Templer, is the St ? The Patron saint of lost things :-) I think it's Anthony..

norwaytips 6:43 Thu Mar 17
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Hani. You need to read a little more. She spent a great deal of her time, denying pain relief medication to terminally sick patients, because it would bring them closer to Jesus, who suffered on the cross.
She also spent a lot of time globe trotting and collecting money for her order. Very little of it, ever got to treating the sick.
As I said earlier, an evil, deluded woman.

Too Much Too Young 6:31 Thu Mar 17
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She should suck Satan's cock and let him decide based upon her performance.

The filthy biatch.

the coming of gary 6:14 Thu Mar 17
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it seems weird that you can have a saint's autograph. but some do i suppose

Hani 5:58 Thu Mar 17
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*out of

Hani 5:57 Thu Mar 17
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It's up to Catholics it's their saints. She was a good women though spent her life picking kids out the gutter and often out if bins and feeding them.

Infidel 12:27 Thu Mar 17
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Hermit

She wasn't asked what was the biggest cause of death she was asked what was the greatest threat to world peace.

Not in any sane mind can the answer to that question be 'abortion'.

She was bonkers, an absolute fruit cake.

But then all Catholics are seriously deluded so she was in good company.

Coffee 12:23 Thu Mar 17
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Moncurs Putting Iron 12:10 Thu Mar 17

Behave.

team boaty 12:12 Thu Mar 17
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anti-abortionist you say


Cant be all that bad

Moncurs Putting Iron 12:10 Thu Mar 17
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Coffee,

What about addressing the real issue here.

The Jugs. Were they at any time WAZZA?

Coffee 12:04 Thu Mar 17
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Texas Iron 6:27 Thu Mar 17

I'm no fan of Christopher Hitchens, but on that point he was right. There are various explanations.

First, she never intended her Calcutta homes to be more than simple, basic places for people to stay for a short time. At the time she started out, they did their job and served a useful function in the context of Calcutta's utterly hopeless state hospital system. If you're interested, you can research the situation yourself. Suffice to say that poor people couldn't (and still, to an extent, can't) get access to proper care and medication when they were sick. They had/have to pay bribes to the hospital security people to be allowed to queue up to see a doctor. Doctors were typically uninterested in treating those poorest of patients and often made their 'diagnosis' without even touching the patient. And even then, if you've only got a couple of quid in your pocket, how are you going to afford tens or hundreds of pounds of medicines? People with leprosy or TB were shunned by their families and by society, often kicked out of their own homes and then unwanted by fellow street dwellers. There simply was no place for them to go. That's where Mother Teresa offered a place for them to stay and a doctor who would take interest in them and treat them properly. Health care in India was and remains a massive rip-off, with knowingly improper treatment the norm.

Could more have been done with the funds she had? Most certainly. Why wasn't it? My feeling is that she didn't want it to get so big that her attention was diverted to managing a massive commercial undertaking. Her primary concern was poor people, those who literally had no access to anything but her own facilities. My feeling again is that she got that wrong, because more could arguably have been done without compromising her vocation. But that takes nothing away from the things she got right. This whole thing has been distorted by the media, though.

Moncurs Putting Iron 8:55 Thu Mar 17
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For me the question is a simple one.

Did she, at any time in her long productive life have a wazza pair of jugs?

geoffpikey 6:35 Thu Mar 17
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If you're not deeply religious, who cares? Badge of honour from a sect, that's all.

Many Englishmen still celebrate "Saint George" (Georgios), a Greek/Palestinian who supposedly "slayed a dragon." Righto. Why him? But it keeps some sort of national "identity" for the English? Portugal also idolises "Saint George".

Mostly myth and nonsense. If the Catholic church wants to make her a saint, they can go ahead. It shouldn't offend anyone. Likewise, It doesn't MATTER if you have a brain.

Texas Iron 6:27 Thu Mar 17
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thanks coffee...

but how do you answer the criticisms of Hitchens and co...re the pathetic state of the Calcutta facilities...but having millions poured in...etc etc...

Private Dancer 6:18 Thu Mar 17
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Comforrtably one of the most pointless threads I've ever seen on here. Why bring this to a football forum? Some real strange cunts on here.

Coffee 6:14 Thu Mar 17
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Tex

Her vocation was a life of prayer and devotion. The nuns in her order still get up at about 4.30 am every day, have a period of prayer, then mass, then breakfast, then go out for work. The rest of the day is similarly organised.

There's a lot of stuff said about her that is simply not true. She was in many ways just an ordinary person with the same kind of foibles and individual imperfections as anyone else. She could be strict when needed, but also pragmatic enough to change her mind when she thought she was wrong. She also had a terrific sense of humour.

Texas Iron 6:02 Thu Mar 17
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Coffee 4:19 Thu Mar 17

translate please...

Coffee 4:19 Thu Mar 17
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Hermit Road 9:18 Wed Mar 16

That's true, but she always saw that work as secondary to her vocation as a nun. The work was the social expression of the vocation. She was always concerned that it stay like that, because she felt that the vocation would become meaningless if the work became more important.

gph 1:58 Thu Mar 17
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Up there with the great cultic questions like should John Travolta be made a captain in seaorg...

If only these cults stopped at giving themselves silly titles

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