It does seem that at least in the first stage of the ministry of the Missionaries of Mercy, Mother Teresa was content to focus on the Corporal Works of Mercy to the exclusion of the Spiritual Works of Mercy. So the imparting of the Faith would not have assisted the poor? But Father was there, at the behest of Pope John Paul II, to equip the sisters to engage in that aspect of charity and I believe that they did. But did Mother ever walk back that statement as quoted from A Simple Path? There is this quote from A Simple Path: “ I’ve always said that we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.” We know that the only way a Hindu, Muslim or anyone else can become “better” is to embrace the One True Faith, not to become further entrenched in their false religions. The Bellarmine Forum carries an article about the relationship between Mother Teresa and Father John Hardon *. While it rightly praises Mother’s many virtues, we see starting in the second paragraph testament to her unwillingness to teach the creeds of the Faith, saying “her sisters were there to help the poor” **. There is no doubt that she and her sisters spent their lives in heroic service to many destitute people and not too many of us can forget the truth she spoke to power at the 1994 prayer breakfast. But there were troubling signs of indifferentism throughout her writings, at least in the early days. Witchcraft, Islam and Humanism – De Facto Creeds of The New AgeĪnother very recent manifestation seems to come from a most surprising source – the canonization of Mother Teresa. This Trad group (wrongly) believes that she is worshiping Mahatma Gandhi On Septemat the Jain Digambara Temple in Calcutta with a group of her nuns The head priest offered to Mother Teresa « two electric candles that will burn forever ». The above event occurred in Calcutta on Octoat a ceremony of thanksgiving for the 25th anniversary of the Missionaries of Charity. To the right is another photograph taken at the same temple. Mother Teresa is in the lower left corner.
In October 1975, at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa and her nuns prayed before a Buddha ( La Contre Reforme Catholique, November 2003). He didn’t, but I eventually sourced it from the Internet. He also promised to send me a picture of Mother Teresa paying obeisance to an icon of Buddha. In early 2012, a Brazilian visitor to my home who has close associations with Propaganda Fide, Rome, lamented Mother Teresa’s statement that one should let a Hindu be a good Hindu… etc., as that flies in the face of the spirit of the Vatican document Ecclesia in Asia and the Great Commission of Jesus (Matthew 28: 18-20). Those who do so are of course not Catholics. There are also those who criticize the stand of Mother Teresa on abortion and contraception as being inhumane and anti-choice. I think the above types who criticized the nun have no understanding of the Catholic faith or who have no idea what it is for one to live “by faith”, depending on freewill donations and contributions (as our ministry has done for over two decades. For the moment, all that I can say is that my concerns were justified by what I read on the Internet today, and are shared by others, especially by Traditionalists.Īnd I am not talking about two or three objections that were raised years ago in the press by secular and anti-Catholic writers (there was even a book or two criticizing her life and ministry), the main ones being that she experienced a kind of loss of faith (known as the “Dark Night of the Soul”), that she glorified the physical suffering of others instead of doing something to alleviate it, and that she accepted donations from individuals with poor human rights records or those who amassed their wealth by questionable means. If you would like to know what my opinion is and what my answer was, you will have to scroll down to the end of the present file. But I already had my strong views on the canonisations of both the Pope and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity and I expressed them but with the rider that I not be misquoted to the Archbishop. I, at that time, did not know that there was any opposition or objection to Mother Teresa’s being beatified and eventually declared a saint. Many years ago, after I gave a talk on New Age to a group of people in Goa, a member of the audience asked me what my thoughts were on the beatification processes of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. Home › Uncategorized › Mother Teresa Canonization Controversy
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