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“Remember Charles Keating? An investment fraud artist, he

was the chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan
Association, which was the target of a federal investigation
after the 1989 savings and loans collapse, which wiped out
$160 billion in savings. Many of those affected were ordinary
Americans, mostly retirees.

Keating it was discovered, had given more than US$1 million

to Teresa and flew her around in his jet. During his trial for
fraud, Teresa wrote to the judge, telling him what a good
guy Keating was and asked for leniency in sentencing. She
advised him to do what Jesus would do.

What Jesus would have done is debatable, but the judge

gave Keating 10 years for fraud.

The scene now gets murkier. According to Dr Don Boys,

author and former member of the Indiana House of
Representatives, ''Teresa received a letter from the Deputy
District Attorney telling her that the money Keating had
given her was stolen from hard working people and
suggested that she return the money. I would have
suggested, after all, that is what Jesus would have you do.
The good nun never answered his letter (nor returned the
stolen money). After all, it was for the 'poor'.”
[Z_¨m~Î: http://www.stuff.co.nz]
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Unmasking Mother Teresa

You think Mother Teresa was a saint, right? Perhaps you also believe she
lifted millions of poor people around the world out of poverty. Think again.
Teresa was no saint. She was no friend of the poor either. On the contrary, the
Albanian nun celebrated poverty and suffering, and refused to give medicines
to the inmates under her care, in the process allowing them to die painful
deaths.

A new study by Canadian researchers backs up what rationalists and neutral

observers - like Britain's Christopher Hitchens - have long held: Teresa only
cared about poverty and not the poor. Researchers Serge Larivee and
Genevieve Chenard from the University of Montreal and Carole Senechal of
the University of Ottawa argue that Teresa was a saint of the media, not the
gutters.

The Canadians analysed over 500 published writings about Teresa and
conclude that her hallowed image, "which does not stand up to analysis of the
facts, was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an
effective media campaign". Over 50 per cent of the books and articles were
hagiographies, they say. The controversial study, to be published this month in
the journal of studies in religion and sciences called Religieuses, says Teresa
actually felt it was beautiful to see the poor suffer. According to the study, the
Vatican overlooked the crucial human side of Teresa - her dubious way of
caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it.

Most people will find this hard to believe all this because the media has
painted this lovely picture of a caring mother who dedicated her life to charity.
But where she went wrong was in believing suffering was good for the people.
She believed in her cause but she had no idea what effect it had on the poor
and sick people under her care. A fawning media, idiotic politicians and
countless donors have overlooked these aspects. But facts are humbling so
let's look at Teresa's history - the uncensored bits, that is.

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Tainted donations
Remember Charles Keating? An investment fraud artist, he was the chairman
of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a federal
investigation after the 1989 savings and loans collapse, which wiped out $160
billion in savings. Many of those affected were ordinary Americans, mostly
retirees.

Keating it was discovered, had given more than US$1 million to Teresa and
flew her around in his jet. During his trial for fraud, Teresa wrote to the judge,
telling him what a good guy Keating was and asked for leniency in sentencing.
She advised him to do what Jesus would do.

What Jesus would have done is debatable, but the judge gave Keating 10
years for fraud.

The scene now gets murkier. According to Dr Don Boys, author and former
member of the Indiana House of Representatives, ''Teresa received a letter
from the Deputy District Attorney telling her that the money Keating had given
her was stolen from hard working people and suggested that she return the
money. I would have suggested, after all, that is what Jesus would have you
do. The good nun never answered his letter (nor returned the stolen money).
After all, it was for the 'poor'."

Seedy connections
Dr Boys says Teresa or her handlers were very astute in using the media for
her own end, raising money for her cause of adding members to the church.
''Some of the sugar daddies she fawned over were disreputable, unscrupulous
people such as the bloody Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (who
plundered Haiti), the Communist Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, Charles
Keating, and other scoundrels," he says. Taking money from Duvalier, one of
the most vicious tyrants to walk the earth, would have been enough to
subpoena Teresa. But she didn't stop there.

One of the characters in her inner circle was Jim Towey, who became her
legal counsel in the late 1980s. In February 2002, President George W. Bush
violated both the letter and the spirit of the American constitution by setting up
the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to further the cause of
fundamentalist churches and religious conversions. Towey was appointed
director of this office.

Anti-reformist
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Teresa was a faithful servant of the Vatican. In an article on Slate.com, author
Christopher Hitchens says, ''During the deliberations over the Second Vatican
Council, under the stewardship of Pope John XXIII, (Teresa) was to the fore in
opposing all suggestions of reform. Her position was ultra-reactionary and
fundamentalist even in orthodox Catholic terms." In fact, while receiving the
Nobel Peace Prize she told a dumbfounded audience that abortion is "the
greatest destroyer of peace."

(Nobel Prize winning economist and author Steven Levitt has demonstrated in
his brilliantly written book, Freakonomics, how the legalisation of abortion
contributed to the sharp - and unexpected - drop in crime in the United States.
Abortions prevented the birth of unwanted children in precisely those families
that might have raised them as criminals.)

Insider reveals
One of the most compelling accounts of the macabre world of Teresa's order,
the Missionaries of Charity, is by the Australian, Collete Livermore. A nun who
worked in Teresa's order for 11 years, she ended up sick and disillusioned. In
1984 she quit and wrote the book Hope Endures, where she talks about a little
known but disturbing side of Teresa, which she says hurt the truly needy.

Livermore explains how the nuns were not provided with medical advice, the
use of mosquito repellents, or information about malaria and vaccinations
because Teresa believed "God" would look after the nuns. Livermore got into
trouble with the order for helping a man with dysentery who was in danger of
dying.

"The order cared more about obedience than doing the right thing," she writes.
Teresa quoted Peter 2:18-23, which orders slaves to obey their masters even
if they are abusive and difficult, and used this text to urge her nuns to obey
superiors without question.

In Manila, Teresa wouldn't let the nuns have a washing machine, which forced
them to wash the underwear of the incontinent with brushes. Livermore felt the
order was more concerned about inflicting hardship on the nuns than on
helping the sick. More angst was in store for Livermore when she was
forbidden to help a sick boy named Alex. That's when Livermore decided to
leave the order because she didn't like the way she was expected to let the
poor suffer.

Pain is beautiful
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Before she died, Teresa had opened over 600 missions in 123 countries.
Some of these missions have been described as "homes for the dying" by
visiting doctors. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit
conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food and no
painkillers. ''There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to
suffer it like Christ's passion. The world gains much from their suffering,'' was
her reply to criticism, cites Hitchens.

It would be pertinent to mention here that each time Teresa herself fell sick
she sought the finest medical care. Despite the fact that medical tourists from
the West travel to India for treatment, Teresa reckoned India wasn't good
enough for her. She was admitted to California's Scripps Clinic and Research
Foundation.

Canonisation capers
In 1997, a year after her death, the pope nominated Teresa for beatification,
the first step towards sainthood. However, by doing this the pope violated a
Vatican tradition that allowed a cooling off period of five years to guard against
dubious characters.

Writes Hitchens: "As for the 'miracle' that had to be attested, what can one
say? Surely any respectable Catholic cringes with shame at the obviousness
of the fakery. A Bengali woman named Monica Besra claims that a beam of
light emerged from a picture of (Teresa), which she happened to have in her
home, and relieved her of a cancerous tumor. Her physician, Dr Ranjan
Mustafi, says that she didn't have a cancerous tumor in the first place and that
the tubercular cyst she did have was cured by a course of prescription
medicine. Was he interviewed by the Vatican's investigators? No."

Ref. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/local-blogs/dark-
matter/8408272/Unmasking-Mother-Teresa

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