What were the bad qualities of Mother Teresa?

Answer 1

• She was outspoken against all kinds of contraceptives.
• Aided a paedophile priest, Father McGuire to return to active ministry, when justice should have been done. McGuire continued his crimes, and this resulted in more suffering to innocent young children.
• Used donations for missionary activities, knowing that the money was intended to help the poor and suffering.
• Helped despots and criminals, at the same time accepting money from them. The convicted criminal, Charles Keating, gave her one and a quarter million dollars and the use of his private plane, although he continued to defraud others until charged and convicted of his crimes.

Answer 2

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 3

Mother Teresa:

• Was outspoken against all kinds of contraceptives.
• Aided a paedophile priest, Father McGuire to return to active ministry, when justice should have been done. McGuire continued his crimes, and this resulted in more suffering to innocent young children. For more information, see: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/nelson-jones/2012/01/mother-teresa-mcguire-abuse
• Used donations for missionary activities, knowing that the money was intended to help the poor and suffering.
• Helped despots and criminals, at the same time accepting money from them. The convicted criminal, Charles Keating, gave her one and a quarter million dollars and the use of his private plane, although he continued to defraud others until charged and convicted of his crimes.

Of course, many Catholics believe that any criticism of Mother Teresa, no matter how well substantiated and how well intended, should be proscribed. This results in accusations of 'lies' when anything is said to the detriment of her pristine reputation.

Answer 4

Actually, she had no bad qualities. Some might construe her trusting nature as a bad quality but she judged no one. She did not question any person's motive for donating to her. She left the judging to God. This trusting innocence sometimes backfired on her and caused others to question her judgments. She believed the Jesuits when they told her that one of their priests, a close friend, who was accused of pedophilia was innocent of the accusations. She went to bat for him. However, after Mother Teresa's death in 1997, the entire truth came out and the priest was guilty of many child molestation charges.

Answer 5

She had none. Those that said she did, really did not understand her (& probably didn't want to understand her either).