Recently, Mother Teresa was brought back to our collective
memory. The issue started with RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement about Mother
Teresa that conversion to Christianity was the objective behind Mother Teresa’s
service to the poor.
Religious conversions
or social service?
There is a need to look in to the facts that becomes even
more important when the whole media is declaring Mohan Bhagwat’s statement a
“disgrace and insult” to Mother Teresa. Religious conversions are not something
new in India. But doing it under the garb of social service is more
demeaning.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha in Albania and founded
the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. There is no doubt that Mother Teresa
rendered a great service to poor and sick people. But she was also instrumental
in converting poor Hindus into Christians. A large number of people, who were
converted, did not know anything significant about Christianity. It proves that
many times conversion was done by lure of money.
Rather than worshipping human beings as gods, one should try
to look at the material facts as well. People like TV anchors, Arvind Kejriwal
and Digvijay Singh have condemned the statement and lashed out at RSS
chief and asked him to apologize publicly. The RSS chief has not questioned
Mother’s service to poor he has opened our eyes on the hidden side of service –
Conversions.
“Self styled Mother”:
The "beatification" of Mother Teresa was
questioned by Christians themselves. Many of them called her “self styled
Mother” and some called her beatification surrender on the part of the church
to superstition and populism.
False miracles:
In regard to claims for Mother being a saint, there is a
fact that one should read. A Bengali woman Monica Besra claimed that a beam of
light emerged from a picture of Mother Teresa that she had at her home. She
claimed that the beam relieved her of a cancerous tumor. Her doctor, Dr. Ranjan
Mustafi said that she did not have a cancerous tumor and the tubercular cyst
she had was cured by medicines.
Opposition with in
the Church:
According to a report in an Italian paper L'Eco di
Bergamo, the Vatican's secretary of state sent a letter to senior cardinals,
asking whether they favored making Mother Teresa a saint. It is astonishing
that the response was in the negative. Mother Teresa was beatified to sainthood
in 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Mother Teresa was nominated by the Pope for
sainthood in 1998, a year after her death, instead of five years which is the
usual practice.
Fanatic views:
She was against abortions,
divorce and remarriage. Like the Muslim fanatics, she was against contraception. After
receiving the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1979, she said, “...I feel the greatest destroyer of peace
today is abortion”. Later in 1996, she told Ladies Home Journal that
she was pleased by the divorce of her friend Princess Diana, because it was an
unhappy marriage. So, she had different rules for rich and the poor.
Hypocrisy:
She treated poor in her set ups but she preferred California
clinics when she got sick herself. Her patients did not have access to pain-relieving
and illness-combating medical support in her charitable organisations. But
Mother Teresa herself used to check into costly and sophisticated hospitals in
the West.
Lack of financial audit:
Her order always refused to publish any audit. According to
her own claim she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries. From
where the funds came and where were they spent is a cloudy mess of information
which is not disclosed completely. There was suspicious management of
the enormous sums of money she received.
The large amount of money that Mother Teresa received was
not meant for poor. Evidently very little of this money actually went to the
poor. A large sum of money was used in the upkeep of Nuns and Brothers and the
training of priests around the world. In an interview she said, “We are not
nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We
are religious, we are religious, we are religious." This statement sums up
her agenda. Her main mission was to spread Catholicism and her strong
anti-abortion beliefs. She had overly dogmatic views regarding abortion,
contraception and divorce.
Support for corrupt
businessmen:
Mother Teresa was accused of hypocrisy on many occasions. She
had once said, "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their
lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much
helped by the suffering of the poor people." She openly supported
corrupt businessmen Charles Keating and Robert Maxwell as well as
dictatorial family Robert Duvalier. This stand of hers received harsh
criticism. She had a dubious way of caring for the sick. She had questionable
political contacts.
'Homes for the dying':
At the time of her
death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions for the poor and sick in more
than 100 countries. But these missions are described as 'homes for the
dying'. Doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, unfit conditions, and shortage
of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers.
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