What did Mother Teresa do with the money?

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Mother Teresa was a really great communicator who could bring in vast sums in donations for the work she reported being done in Calcutta. The Catholic Church soon realised the potential and swung its publicity resources behind building her reputation and fame, adding to her world-wide appeal. Susan Shields, who served the order in New York for a total of nine and a half years as Sister Virgin, says, "We spent a large part of each day writing thank you letters and processing cheques. Every night around 25 sisters had to spend many hours preparing receipts for donations. It was a conveyor belt process: some sisters typed, others made lists of the amounts, stuffed letters into envelopes, or sorted the cheques. Values were between $5 and $100,000. Donors often dropped their envelopes filled with money at the door. Before Christmas the flow of donations was often totally out of control. The postman brought sackfuls of letters - checks for $50000 were no rarity." Sister Virgin remembers that one year there was about $50 million in a New York bank account. $50 million in one year, in just one nation - there was no shortage of funds.

The problem seems to have been in spending such vast amounts of money wisely in the service of the poor. The major activity centre for the order was Calcutta, India. Here, it is reported that the order provided only a few hundred beds for the dying destitute and only a relatively nominal number of meals for the homeless, compared with other, less well publicised charities working in the same area.

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Mother Teresa's work was supported by donations.
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It is estimated that Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity received over $100 million dollars a year in donations, but most of the money was directed to convents and missions for the propagation of the Catholic faith rather than to the more highly publicised hospices and schools that attracted these donations.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa gave the money she got as donations to support her missions throughout the world.

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Mother Teresa was a really great communicator who brought in vast sums in donations for the work she reported being done in Calcutta. Of course this money did not belong to her personally, but she was at liberty to spend the donations on priorities determined by herself. Her major priority was the establishment and running of convents and missions for the propagation of the Catholic religion, including training nuns, brothers and priests, followed by her well-known work for the poor, but also for frequent international first-class air travel and, as her own health began to fail, medical treatment at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India.

Such vast amounts of money had to be seen to be spent in the service of the poor, in order to keep the funds flowing in. The major activity centre for the order was Calcutta, India. Here, it is reported that the order provided only a few hundred beds for the dying destitute and only a relatively nominal number of meals for the homeless, compared with other, less well publicised charities working in the same area. This is in keeping with Mother Teresa's objectives, which were to convert people to Catholicism, not so much to provide services to the poor. Her priorities were expressed in the statement, "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."

Catholic Answer:

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, 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. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.

Answer 3

The financial support along with recruits came from charitable donations, from various people, organizations and groups.

Answer 4

Mother Teresa got paid in the only coin that she ever thought was important, the love of God. She received payment in full when she died, and is now in heaven.

Answer 5

She received donations.