Why were nuns annoyed with Mother Teresa?

Answer 1

Most recently and most notably, author Christopher Hitchens

He published quite an expose on the alleged hypocrisy and alleged cruelty of Mother Teresa and her order. However, most of his allegations have been since disproven.

Answer 2

People were criticising Mother Teresa's work because people felt that she tried to convert Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim people to Christianity when they were at their weakest point in life and so were vulnerable. People also didn't like the fact that her attempts to baptise the dying and her strong anti-abortion stance. Mother Teresa also believed that being poor would lead a person to God. This often meant that the standard of medical care in her hospice was not as good as it was in more modern hospitals. Concerns have also been raised about hoe donated money was being was spent.

Answer 3

she is criticized because she was helping the poor.

Answer

Mother Teresa has been criticised because of the lack of transparency in financial accounting in the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity. Untold millions of dollars flow into the order every year, yet the services it provides to the poor and suffering are quite small in comparison.

Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta and specifically held Teresa responsible for what he observed there. Sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, were making decisions about patient care, and Dr. Fox 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."

Towards the end of her life, Mother Teresa attracted some negative attention in the Western media. She has been criticised for her view on suffering, saying that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus. Sanal Edamaruku, President of Rationalist International, criticised the failure to give painkillers, writing that in her Homes for the Dying, one could "hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief. On principle, strong painkillers were not administered even in severe cases."

Mother Teresa was criticised for accepting donations from the autocratic and corrupt Duvalier family in Haiti and having openly praised them. After accepting $1.25 million from Charles Keating, involved in the fraud and corruption scheme known as the Keating Five scandal, she wrote a letter to Judge Lance Ito, requesting leniency on his behalf.

SF Weekly reports that when she had the opportunity to report a paedophile priest to the secular authorites, so that justice could be done, she failed to do so, even encouraging the Church hierarchy to return him to active ministry. According to documents said to have been obtained by SF Weekly, she showed loyalty to one of her favourite priests, Donald McGuire, who was removed from ministry for sexually abusing a Bay Area boy in 1993. She urged that he be returned to work as soon as possible. The priest resumed active ministry, as well as his predatory habits. Eight additional complaints were lodged against him in the coming years by various families, leading to his eventual arrest on sex-abuse charges in 2005. Her actions delayed justice for Father McGuire's previous victims and led to the suffering of even more innocent young children.

Mother Teresa has been beatified by the Catholic Church and may well be canonised in due course, but she was no saint.

Answer 4

A:Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of the most revered religious figures of the past century. Some of the nuns who worked for Mother Theresa in Calcutta had disagreements with her from time to time and she does seem to have required absolute, blind obedience, but a more serious complaint seems to be her lack of concern for their own health and well-being.

Collete Livermore, a former nun in Mother Teresa's order, The Missionaries of Charity, said that though the order had sufficient money donated to it for the purpose of buying books to help with the medical work this was not done and as a result, the health of the sisters was at risk. The nuns were not provided with medical advice, mosquito repellents or any information about malaria and vaccinations. The idea was that God would look after the nuns, but the result was that their health suffered.

Answer 5

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 6

Whenever someone tries to do good, the devil has his minions on earth do their best to discredit the person and their work. Christopher Hitchens published quite an expose on the hypocrisy and cruelty of Mother Teresa and her order but nearly all of it has been shown to be untrue. Hitchens makes his living destroying others. Besides Mother Teresa, he excoriated Bill Clinton; Henry Kissinger; Diana, Princess of Wales; and Pope Benedict XVI and others. Some criticized Mother Teresa simply because they were anti-Catholic. Some criticized her because they did not understand her mission.

Answer 7

One of the things that Mother Teresa regularly protested about, and went so far as to lecture the United Nations combined assembly about was abortion. One of her favorite quotes was "to say there are too many children, is like saying that there are too many flowers." She told women everywhere that if they did not want their baby, to call her, she would take the child. To this day, the Missionary Sisters of Charity will take any unwanted child.

Answer 8

Mother Teresa was not a cruel person. She based her missionary order on the teaching and practices of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis felt that his followers could not truly serve the poor unless they became poor themselves. This became the goal of Mother Teresa. Her people were to live a life of poverty to best serve the poor. Some misguided individuals from comfortable, affluent lives but with good intentions joined her order without fully understanding what they were getting themselves into. They found it impossible to completely divest themselves of the material world and live a life of abject poverty and left the missionaries, often as bitter individuals who considered Mother Teresa's ideals to be cruel and more than they could endure. Unfortunately, this tiny minority had a voice that led some to turn against Mother Teresa while tens of thousands of others continued to serve the poor following the vision of their founder and Saint Francis.