What challenges did Mother Teresa face?

Answer 1

Answer: Various challenges: 1) While teaching in school for wealthy girls in Calcutta, Mother Teresa felt called to leave the convent and dedicate her life to the poor. It took several months for her to receive permission from Rome, as the authorities were not keen on the idead of a solitary sister working in the violent streets of Calcutta. 2) When she finally received permission to leave, she left with hardly any money and really no place to live or to treat the dying. She had not really thought things through and simply trusted in God. 3) When she left the convent, Mother Teresa had no place to put the dying people she wanted to care for; she had to beg. 4) In the beginning she was alone until some former students came to join her. Very few parents were happy that their wealthy daughters were joining Mother Teresa and there was a great deal of resistance. 5) Mother Teresas was not trained to deal with diseases, and simply dealing with various illnesses - and the dying - was very challenging. 6) In her old age, when she was frail, Mother Teresa still led the many sisters who eventually joined her congeegation. 7) She related that, in her old age, she had not felt the presence of God for many years, and continued on faith alone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity. But the nuns of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the order. In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery, but it was clear that her health was declining. Another controversy surrounding her is that when she fell ill, instead of being treated at one of her clinics, she opted to be treated at a well-equipped hospital in California. On March 13, 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997. The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa with her permission when she was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought she may be under attack by the devil. At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, an associated brotherhood of 300 members, and over 100,000 lay volunteers, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. She received a lot of financial help from various organizations but the biggest challenge was man-power. People were willing to give money, but she always insisted of donating time rather than money.

Answer 2

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One of the greatest challenges that Mother Teresa faced in her work was her lack of any training in health care. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta and held Teresa specifically responsible for what he saw there.

Dr. Fox observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, were making decisions about patient care. He also observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. He noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking."

Perhaps as a result of her own lack of training, Mother Teresa was even unwilling to buy books to help the nuns with the medical work although, according to Collete Livermore, a former nun in the order, there was sufficient money donated for the purpose. The priority on finances was always for the advancement of missionary work.

Catholic Answer:

Mother Teresa faced many challenges in her early years working in the slums of Calcutta. Before she began working in the slums she took several months of basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital in Patna, India. However, most of the drugs she could have used to alleviate suffering were not available to even registered medical facilities in India until the year 2012. The only drugs she could legally obtain were such analgesics such as aspirin. The World Health Organization recognizes aspirin as a suitable pain killer for even cancer. Mother Teresa was not running a hospital and she was clear about this. She was running a hospice for the dying. She also had to face criticisms from outsiders, especially from the developed world, that her facilities did not meet standards in their home country. However, they were basing their comments on facilities in Europe and the United States and did not take into consideration the conditions in a third world country and the challenges posed by them. Initially, Mother Teresa had no funding and had to beg for food and supplies on a daily basis. It was not until the early 1970s that her work became well known to the outside world and donations started pouring in. There were a host of other challenges including the fact that her small group of sisters were overwhelmed by the vast numbers of poor who required help.

Answer 3

She didn't have enough money for herself, her father died when she 9, many people disagreed with her because they wanted her to heal the sick people not just find them a place to die peacefully, also when she was older her health was low  

Answer 4

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As she grew older, Mother Teresa faced a number of age-related diseases. She sought medical treatment for herself at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India, drawing charges of hypocrisy for the contrast to the conditions at her homes and her stated views on suffering.

Answer 5

Mother Teresa was born with the name Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, and her father died when she was only eight years old. She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary and never again saw her mother or sister. Life was comfortable for Mother Teresa, but she eventually suffered from age-related diseases, including a number of heart attacks, eye cataracts, kidney problems and broken bones. Fortunately she was able to afford the best medical care the world had to offer, seeking treatment at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India. She even had her bedroom, in the order's Motherhouse, fitted out with with expensive, sophisticated cardiac equipment because of her heart condition. As far as she was able, Mother Teresa took no risks with her life and health, but finally succumbed to a heart attack.

Answer 6

Mother Teresa was born with the name Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, and her father died when she was only eight years old. She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary and never again saw her mother or sister.

Life was comfortable for Mother Teresa, but she eventually suffered from age-related diseases, including a number of heart attacks, eye cataracts, kidney problems and broken bones. Fortunately she was able to afford the best medical care the world had to offer, seeking treatment at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India. She even had her bedroom, in the order's Motherhouse, fitted out with with expensive, sophisticated cardiac equipment because of her heart condition. As far as she was able, Mother Teresa took no risks with her life and health, but finally succumbed to a heart attack.

Answer 7

Here are some of her challenges

• Belief in God
• People didn't trust her
• People threw stones at her sick home in india

Answer 8

She did not have enough money to carry out her intentions and her health condition was not good.

Answer 9

Her father died when she was only eight.