"Almost Saint" Mother Teresa

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So Mother Teresa was Beatified today, meaning that she is one step from being a saint. In order to be beatified, apparently there has to be one confirmed miracle. Anyone know the supposed miracle that Mother Teresa performed?
 
pgwenthold said:
So Mother Teresa was Beatified today, meaning that she is one step from being a saint. In order to be beatified, apparently there has to be one confirmed miracle. Anyone know the supposed miracle that Mother Teresa performed?
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Yeah. It's a miracle that such an awful person has managed to come this far to being a "saint".
 
pgwenthold said:
So Mother Teresa was Beatified today, meaning that she is one step from being a saint. In order to be beatified, apparently there has to be one confirmed miracle. Anyone know the supposed miracle that Mother Teresa performed?
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I think it had something to do with the most balls in the air while juggling.
 
An Indian woman called Monica Besra claims that she had a large stomach tumor miraculy cured. However before (now technicly blessed) Mother Teresa can be declared a saint a second miracle will be needed.
 
geni said:
An Indian woman called Monica Besra claims that she had a large stomach tumor miraculy cured.
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Wow. And the Vatican "dissenters" couldn't find any holes in her claim? I know, all they probably did was to verify that she had a tumor, and that it is now gone. Verify that it was MT that cured it? Nah, that would be too much work. We'll just take the woman's word for it...



However before (now technicly blessed) Mother Teresa can be declared a saint a second miracle will be needed.
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Supposedly the second miracle has to occur after she died, too.
 
One tiny hole in the miracle claim is that the husband adamantly denies that Mother Teresa had anything to do with his wife getting better. But that won't slow the Catholics down at all.

My wife's mother is actually responsible for making a saint. When she was a child, she was sick with pneumonia, and she dreamed that the founder of the Catholic hospital she was recovering in visited her. Being a child, she told her parents about the dream, although even as a child she knew the dream had nothing to do with her getting well. The story got back to the Catholics, who then used that miracle claim to justify sainting the founder. (Who was dead for this entire process, btw). The only people claiming miracle here are the church - not the person allegedly healed!

This pope has made more saints than all other popes combined. I forsee a not too distant future when Sainthood is a title purchased for a sizable donation.
 
pgwenthold said:
So Mother Teresa was Beatified today, meaning that she is one step from being a saint.
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Cool! I'm not Catholic, but I'm glad she did!!

Winning a Nobel Peace Prize ... that is so cool, and I admire her for that.

Before we criticize, we should be asking ourselves: What have I done for the world?
 
Allright! It's about time too, I mean she really had it comming to her.



the old bag diserved it, for all the... what?.... beatified? I thought you said she was beaten today. A little late since she's dead, but still it would make some people feel better. :cool:
 
Yahzi said:

This pope has made more saints than all other popes combined. I forsee a not too distant future when Sainthood is a title purchased for a sizable donation.
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No, no, you've got it all wrong there. You won't be getting sainthood for a sizable donation. With the mass production line set up with this pope you'll be getting sainthood as the toy surprise in your cereal box: Holy-O's
 
Re: Re: "Almost Saint" Mother Teresa

volant said:


She pulled a silver dollar from behind some starving kids ear.
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Then gave it to the church, because the kids poverty brings him closer to jebus :p
 
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?postid=1870054454&highlight=Teresa#post1870054454

You could also point out that a recent "miracle" documented by the Holy Roman Catholic Church and attributed to Mother Teresa is highly questionable: http://www.rense.com/general30/terr.htm
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magaz...4433,00,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2593073.stm
http://indiabroad.rediff.com/news/2002/oct/19teres1.htm

So that even if the Church did give their stamp of approval to some Lourdes cures, it doesn't matter much because they have not maintained standards.
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Ah....Mother Theresa....

You know, I really think that MT cared for the poor of Calcutta. I really think she did "wonders", the way a truly dedicated person would help the unfortunate ones of this world. A little money can go a long way.

She did make a difference. She worked for decades in the worst slum imaginable. She did help poor people. Sure, she had her flaws, but I am not going to diss her work, just like that. Yep, she is a "saint", in a wordly sense. If that makes sense at all! :)

However.

I do not like the Catholic Church cashing in on her. The Pope has made more saints than any other pope in the past 400 years (article: "An evening with a Miracle Man"). Miracles and saints are big business for the Catholic Church, even if the evidence is more than lacking.

There is very strong evidence that the claimed miracle of MT was not a real miracle. I have no doubt that MT will be pronounced a saint, before this pope dies. Or, at least, in a few years.

It shows that if we want to know how mass media works, we only need to observe how religion works.
 
TaiChi writes...
Cool! I'm not Catholic, but I'm glad she did!!

Winning a Nobel Peace Prize ... that is so cool, and I admire her for that.

Before we criticize, we should be asking ourselves: What have I done for the world?

Before making a saint out of someone they should be asking themselves...What has she done for the world?

According to some she took in millions of dollars in donations and used it to build her sisterhood. Little if anything went to the poor. She could have built hospitals or clean water facilities or birth control clinics or aids prevention centres but chose to give the poor only her rhetoric. When the people she "ministered" to were so desperately poor that they could not even feed themselves, she encouraged them to have more and more children for the glory of god.

All the world over but especially in third world countries the Catholic church sits in its towers of pure gold while they could save untold lives from the ravages of aids with a simple gesture...go ahead, use condoms.

It is my personal opinion that anyone who lets someone die for their own good is repugnant to the nth degree and people such as Mother Whats her name is the worst of the bunch.
 
jimmygun said:

She could have built hospitals or clean water facilities or birth control clinics or aids prevention centres but chose to give the poor only her rhetoric.
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Fine, whatever, but you and I didn't even give them rhetoric.

I think the intelligent folks who gave her a Nobel Prize disagree with you. :)
 
I have contributed to the betterment of Indian families over the years. I have raised them to self sufficiency. If I had the resources of a mother whats her name I would have done things to an exponential degree.
 
A Saint and a Musical. You can't do better than that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3193534.stm

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The musical tells the story of Mother Teresa's struggles
A musical about the life of Mother Teresa has had audiences flocking to a Rome theatre ahead of the late nun's beatification by the Pope.
The show looks back at her five decades of helping the poor in Calcutta, set to reggae, funk and pop songs.

About 1,300 people packed the Brancaccio theatre for its first night.

"The aim is not to tackle political problems but to portray her most ephemeral aspects," said the show's creator Michele Paulicelli.
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jimmygun said:
I have contributed to the betterment of Indian families over the years. I have raised them to self sufficiency. If I had the resources of a mother whats her name I would have done things to an exponential degree.
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Good for you (seriouosly!). I can honestly say that I don't do enough for people that are seriosuly in need. I need to work on that. Hey, maybe you should try to get your Nobel Peace Prize then, you know, since you think you could have done better than Mother Teresa did. If you really could, getting financial backers should not be a problem.

Here is an interesting set of pages about this wonderful woman:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/mother.teresa/chronology/index.html
 
MoeFaux said:

She's a fraud and a charlatan. She's a bad person who decieved a lot of people.
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I personally doubt anyone on this board has done as much humanitarian work as Mother Teresa has.

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1979/ Yeah, what a slacker she was! :rolleyes:

By your comments you are insulting the entire Nobel committee (for starters).

If she is a bad person, I'd hate to know what that makes us good people.
 
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