How did people react to Mother Teresa?

Answer 1

Most people have nothing but love and respect for Mother Teresa. As with any person of celebrity status, she has her detractors, most of them quite anti-Catholic who dig up half truths and, in many cases, pure fabrications to denigrate her and her work.

Many say she did little to help the suffering in the way of providing medications to alleviate their pain. Mother Teresa was not in the business of providing medical care, she made that clear. Her work was to give the dying some comfort and a death with dignity and surrounded by people who loved them. She was not a doctor and could not provide drugs, even if they had been available. India strictly controls all pain medications so that even registered hospitals find them difficult to obtain.

Others claim she went to bat for a priest friend who was abusing boys. Mother Teresa did nothing more that write a letter of support for the man based on information she had received from the person who investigated the case. It was not until long after Mother Teresa's death that the sordid details of the case were discovered.

Some accuse her of being more interested in making Catholic converts that in helping the poor. Mother Teresa had no intentions of evangelizing as she wanted to concentrate her efforts on helping the poorest of the poor. However, Pope John Paul II ordered that she also must evangelize. Having taken a vow of obedience, Mother had no choice but to comply.

There are allegations that she was friends with gangsters and dictators but these charges are not backed up with a single shred of evidence. Of course, if it is on the internet it has to be true, right? It is just another part of the disinformation campaign to discredit a great saint.

Others claim that, while she ignored the suffering of the poor, she sought the best of medical treatment for herself in foreign countries. It just happens that when Mother Teresa suffered a medical emergency, she was traveling abroad. One heart attack occurred while she was visiting the Holy Father in Rome. Another occurred when she was seriously injured in a fall while visiting Mexico. What was she to tell her hosts? "Don't treat me here, put me back on a plane to India so I can receive treatment there."

There are many more lies out there. All a person need do is a small bit of research to get at the truth.

Even when Mother Teresa was accused of many of these things while she was alive, she would simply shrug and ignore them. She live the beatitudes and one of them states:

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

Answer 2

people thought of her as a sweet caring person who cared for everybody and helped the poor very well. Mother Teresa was a very good person.

Mother Teresa to me was a loving caring willing saint. She was the first person to start an aids center and that helped a lot of people..

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Catholic Answer

The answer is not obvious to modern people as they did not understand Mother Theresa, because they do not understand real Christianity. Mother Theresa, a Catholic nun who entered the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland to become a teaching nun, was sent to India to teach. Later, moved with compassion, and the love of God, she received a "call" from God to help the poorest of the poor. The rest of her life was spent in "darkness" which I discuss below.

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Modern people, and most people who call themselves Christians, think that going to Church on Sunday, saying some things, and being nice to people is what it is all about. They are completely missing the mark. Those kind of things are just the tip of the iceberg. Mother Teresa helped others by loving God above all things, putting Him first in her life, and doing His Will no matter how painful it was for her, and it was very painful.

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Mother spent most of her life in a dark night with no real feeling or personal knowledge of God. This is very common with the founders of religious orders, they are strong enough in their faith to make their way through life totally depend on Faith, Hope, and Charity: the three cardinal virtues bestowed on us in Baptism. She sacrificed herself completely for God, and was called a saint and a prophet for it.

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Mother Theresa helped others the way we are all called to help others, by getting up in the morning, and taking some to give to God first. She spend an hour in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, went to Holy Mass, received Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist, and went to confession frequently, and regularly. And, then, when she had done these things, she went out and lived her faith by seeing her God in every individual in front of her, especially the poor, the sick, the aged, and the abandoned. She served God by serving Him in them - which is nothing more nor less than she lived the Gospel with every breath in her body.

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Mother Teresa showed compassion for those who were less fortunate than she was. She gave them food, lifted their spirits, and helped them survive. She is and was considered a hero to many people. After her death, she was put on the short list for canonization, and in 2012 I believe she has already had one miracle attributed to her, and has been beatified. Of course, she loved children.

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The Church often says that the only real way to help people, the way to become a good spouse, parent, teacher, or whatever, is to become a saint. Mother Teresa believed and lived this. She helped the poor by becoming a saint.

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The various ways that she accomplished that was that she always did the Will of God even when she didn't feel as if God was there or approving of her. She cared for the poorest of the poor.

She established hospices and hospitals for the sick and dying, she started in Calcutta as she started a new religious order, the Missionaries of Charity, which spread throughout the world. Today the Order still cares for the poorest of the poor, the sick and dying. Mother Theresa and her nuns went out into the streets and picked up the dying homeless to bring them to her hospice. They clean them, feed them, pray with them, and serve them so that they spend their last days or hours in dignity. She and her Order treat those dying of AIDS, the lepers, the untouchables, those whom nobody else will love and care for. She saw Our Blessed Lord in everyone of them, in disguise, pleading for our help and love.

Answer

I think Mother Teresa was a great role model for all the womens around the world. She was and still my role model, she show the world how to love and care for the poor, and to love the unwanted children.

I wold love to help the poor and love the unwanted children. She used to say if you dont want them, dont kill them, give them to me"

AnswerPlease do not think of this hoax as a role model. Please do some searching about what she really did and didn't do for the poor. The house of dying was just that, people came to die, even from curable diseases. The MoC took in billions and none of it was used to improve the lives of the poor. MT believed that suffering was good and brought people closer to Jesus. Read some stories from people that volunteered for the charity, read how there was no financial accountability. Read how the Indian charities did more than MT's did. She took in enough money from donations to provide medical care, better facilities, training for her nuns, comfortable quarters, and even paid people to take care of the children so they wouldn't have to be chained to their cribs.

Answer 3

People reacited to Mother Teresa as a saint.They loved what she did and how she did it.Mother Teresa was at the age of twelve when she felt strongly to the call of god she knew that she had to be a missionary so that she could spread the love of christ.

Answer 4

she was tread by other people by giving Mother Teresa any name that people wanted one of the names was called Calcutta which was bad name to give to Mother Teresa but in India Mother Teresa was tread by other people good because she done lots of thinks to them so India people like her and one of the thinks that she was helping was poor children that are dying so Indian people treated her nicely.

Answer 5

Mother Teresa had her share of critics who claim she did little to relieve suffering and spent all her donations to further expand her order. The people who criticize have no concept of what she originally set out to accomplish and the barriers she encountered. The poor of India who were near death were abandoned to die in the gutters of the city in hopes that someone would eventually removed the body and dispose of it. Mother Teresa set out to provide hospices where these terminally ill could at the very least die with some dignity and not alone, where they could receive basic care and companionship in their final hours or days. She thought it important to help as many people as she could and her resources were spread thinly. She also faced problems with the medical system of India because of the Caste System as most of the people she tried to help were 'untouchables.'. As her order has spread around the world and her available resources have increased the Missionaries of Charity are upgrading their services where they are able to include medical clinics, hospitals, orphanages and so forth. I can think of no other organization or individual who have had the impact of Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity.

Which provides the greater amount of good?
Spending all your resources so that a small number of people can receive the best of medical treatment or using those same resources to help thousands by giving them basic care and comfort. Keep in mind that they would otherwise receive NO care. They would die alone in the streets and their bodies treated like so much trash to be disposed of.

Some also criticized Mother Teresa for accepting donations from criminals or petty tyrant governments. Mother Teresa followed the example of Jesus and never judged others. (Do not judge others lest you be judged.) She left the judging to God. She accepted help from anyone, good or bad, young or old, rich or poor. She never questioned their motives as she didn't care. God would judge their actions, not her. Because she accepted these funds from what some would call questionable sources some felt she was giving tacit approval of the actions of these leaders. This could not be further from the truth. Mother Teresa took no sides. She was not a judge.

Answer 6

Mother Teresa had her share of critics who claim she did little to relieve suffering and spent all her donations to further expand her order. The people who criticize have no concept of what she originlly set out to accomplish and the barriers she encountered. The poor of India who were near death were abandoned to die in the gutters of the city in hopes that someone would eventually removed the body and dispose of it. Mother Teresa set out to provide hostels where these terminally ill could at the very least die with some dignity and not alone, where they could receive basic care and companionship in their final hours or days. She thought it important to help as many people as she could and her resources were spread thinly. She also faced problems with the medical system of India because of the caste system as most of the people she tried to help were 'untouchables.'. As her order has spread around the world and her availabe resources have increased the Missionaries of Charity are upgrading their services where they are able to include medical clinics, hospitals, orphanages and so forth. I can think of no other organization or individual who have had the impact of Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charilty.

Which provides the greater amount of good?

Spending all your resources so that a small number of people can receive the best of medical treatment or using those same resources to help thousands by giving them basic care and comfort. Keep in mind that they would otherwise receive NO care. They would die alone in the streets and their bodies treated like so much trash to be disposed of.

Some also criticized Mother Teresa for accepting donations from criminals or petty tyrant governments. Mother Teresa followed the example of Jesus and never judged others. (Do not judge others lest you be judged.) She left the judging to God. She accepted help from anyone, good or bad, young or old, rich or poor. She never questioned their motives as she didn't care. God would judge their actions, not her. Because she accepted these funds from what some would call questionable sources some felt she was giving tacit approval of the actions of these leaders. This could not be further from the truth. Mother Teresa took no sides. She was not a judge.

Some people hated Mother Teresa for the simple reason that she was a Catholic.

Answer 7

“In Mother Teresa’s smile, words and deeds, Jesus again walked the streets of the world as the Good Samaritan.”