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LONDON: A study conducted by Canadian researchers has called Mother Teresa "anything but a saint", a creation of an orchestrated and effective media campaign who was generous with her prayers but miserly with her foundation's millions when it came to humanity's suffering. The controversial study, to be published this month in the journal of studies in religion/sciences called Religieuses, says that Teresa known across the world as the apostle of the dying and the downtrodden actually felt it was beautiful to see the poor suffer. According to the study, the Vatican overlooked the crucial human side of Teresa her dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it. Instead, the Vatican went ahead with her beatification followed by canonization "to revitalize the Church and inspire the faithful especially at a time when churches are empty and the Roman authority is in decline". Researchers Serge Larivee and Genevieve Chenard from the University of Montreal's department of psychoeducation, and Carole Senechal of the University of Ottawa's faculty of education, analysed published writings about Mother Teresa and concluded that her hallowed image, "which does not stand up to analysis of the facts, was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media campaign". Megapolis Smart Homes 3
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According to Larivee, facts debunk Teresa's myth. He says that the Vatican, before deciding on Teresa's beatification, did not take into account "her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her FEATURED TODAY IN WORLD suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding ... abortion, contraception, and divorce." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Mother-Teresa-saint-of-the-media-controversial-study-says/articleshow/18760028.cms?
The controversial study called Religieuses says that Teresa known across the world as the apostle of the dying and the downtrodden actually felt it was beautiful to see the poor suffer.
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At the time of her death, Teresa had 517 missions or "homes for the dying" as described by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Kolkata. They welcomed the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving apt care. 'Miracle of medicine' According to the study, the doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. They say that the problem was not a paucity of funds as the Order of the Missionaries of Charity successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Researchers said that when it came to her own treatment, "she received it in a modern American hospital". The three researchers also dug into records of her meeting in London in 1968 with the BBC's Malcom Muggeridge who had strong views against abortion and shared Mother Teresa's rightwing Catholic values. The researchers say Muggeridge had decided to promote Teresa. In 1969, he made a eulogistic film on the missionary, promoting her by attributing to her the "first photographic miracle", when it should have been attributed to the new film stock being marketed by Kodak. Following her death, the Vatican decided to waive the usual five-year waiting period to open the beatification process. According to the researchers, one of the miracles attributed to Mother Theresa is the healing of Monica Besra, who suffered from intense abdominal pain, after a medallion blessed by her was placed on Besra's abdomen. Larivee said, "Her doctors thought otherwise: the ovarian cyst and the tuberculosis from which she suffered were healed by the drugs they had given her. The Vatican, nevertheless, concluded that it was a miracle. Mother Teresa's popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint." Larivee however signs off on a surprisingly positive note and says there could also be a positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth. "If the extraordinary image of Mother Teresa conveyed in the collective imagination has encouraged humanitarian initiatives that are genuinely engaged with those crushed by poverty, we can only rejoice," they signed off.
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why do living people muck around the people who are dead? Why don't they raise the issues or make controversial studies when a person is alive? For the poorer and dying people she was THE HOPE and hope is something a suffering man lives. Lets keep good memory of Mother Teresa in our heart and respect her for what she did.
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I got a chance to be around mother Theresa once.... And apparently she wasn't that nice! I think I might agree with the author in this article.
Venkat (Chennai) 11 mins ago
She was living God in the Earth !
V. Madhavan (Secunderabad) 13 mins ago
It was an interesting reading of the book review. When a large institution is being run, many of the modern tools will necessarily come to play economy, rational spending, public relations etc. All savants and saints know very well that to-day's bounty is not a guarantee that similar incomes will be forthcoming in the coming years. Therefore, every head of an institution will necessarily have to run the institution as though he or she is the CEO. This is the truism and cannot be avoided. Whether it is the Vatican or the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam or the Missionaries of Charity - all these have to be run on sound business lines. Can we tell in the same breath that Mother Teresa found comfort or relief in having the sick and the dying in her premises because the mere sight of the same will evoke sympathy in the minds of the potential benefactors? Definitely not. She was an embodiment of love and compassion to the several have nots and to those who knocked at her door. Mother Teresa has done enormous yeoman service. It is a sacrilege to do a pathological study on the way the donations were collected or how the PR machinery was run successfully. We must remember, however, that though we sincerely and affectionately venerate and revere Mother Teresa tremendously, we must not forget for a moment that she was not God incarnate nor Jesus Christ who had done many a miracle ! She had spread the message of love and compassion to all she came across and she was able to touch the lives of millions.
Santoshkum ar (KL) 15 mins ago
She is a Saint.
S das (Uk) 20 mins ago
I have met mother Teresa- and she exudes hope- as far as I am concerned , she did a lot and far more than some ridiculous study almost a quarter of a century after her death!
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Ram an (India) 22 mins ago
Theresa used a fairly large portion of the very generous donations her sisterhood received for her personal requirements. She always travelled first class - which she invariably attributed to well wiashers' generosity (sic) and used high quality medical facilities and treatment from the world's most expensive medicare centers while 'easing' the deaths of the ill and forgotten through her much publicised reaping of souls for the Christian church. No wonder the Vatican was in such a hurry to declare her a saint.
drparasjain (Mumbai) 26 mins ago
Teresa her dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it. !!! But Mother Teresa's popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint." Now some one will see a Hindu Brigade in these findings in a chirstina country by christina researchers ...
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Larry gom es (Riyadh) 27 mins ago
My friend if you don;t know anything about mother Teresa,please don't say anything bad against her.I am from Calcutta and what she done for Calcutta and rest of world i thing i know better then you. Until now if you came to Calcutta and see your self then i hope you never gonna be say anything about mother Teresa.When she was death,that time whole Calcutta was cry for her.Hindu,Muslim, Christians everyone.We can not find like her anymore.
aw m yth (UK) replies to Larry gom es 8 mins ago
Go on, tell us what has "done for Calcutta". I too am from Calcutta, other than a house where the destitutes were crammed in TO DIE, NOT TREATED FOR ILLNESSES, she has done nothing. Except fool the masses. So go on, enlighten me, what else she did for Calcutta.
Gautam Maitra (Kolkata) 28 mins ago
She may not have miracle around her halo but it is no use denigrating her services to the cause of humanity. If one is bent on picking holes of a 'messenger', he can well do the job of a scavanger.
Baba Amte was never glorified - because he made congress angry and because of his stand on Narmada , powerful Gujarat Lobby - major industrialists - Amabani, Tata, Adani, etc was angry so he was termed even aa "traitor" while Teresa was glorifies. Baba Amte was not even considered for Bharat Ratna while less mortals like Lata and sachin are considered fit fo this . -- Baba amte , alas! did not know which side of the bread was buttered -- but he was an institution unto himself - he advocated - GIVE ARMS NOT ALMS . His Principles WILL will remain alive for ever -- Even Bharta Ratna is nothing before that noble soul .
Dhakkan (World Citizen) 30 mins ago
for them only pope is a saint. LOL
Karm a (India) 31 mins ago
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She left her own country and went to a country with much more poverty, took care of the poor, lonely, sick and outcasts including lepers and orphans who we fellow Indians did not take care of, and all she gets is criticism. If someone has done such good deeds, then they have the right to criticize her. If not, then surely we shall get the karma for our actions, for not only do we not lift a finger to do the good she has done but actually malign her name after her death for her good works.
aw m yth (UK) replies to Karm a 4 mins ago
She was from Albania. Where there is as much poverty if not more than in India. Get your facts right first before making blind comments. If she really wanted to do charity, she should have done it at home. In India, specially in Calcutta, she found gullible people, who believed she was doing any good. Very few actually went to her MC shelters to find out what she was really doing. Those that did, Indians and foreigners, came back with horrifying experiences.
BharatK (Bharat) 32 mins ago
Teresa was a creation of western finance and supported media, as a christian agent to harvest souls in India. She succeeded to some extent, but Hindus are not so gullible. British tried 200 years and could not convert even 5 million poor Hindus/tribals across India when they left in 1947. Much of christian conversion occured post-independence under Congress, as NehruCongress always kept eyes closed on missionaries dirty soul harvesting industry. Most missionaries in India are from Kerala, these creatures become slaves to western white master. But western white master treat them as slaves. In the west, nobody cares about these brown Indian christians who became their slaves./ Most educated westerners read Bhagavad Gita, Yoga, Buddha and other Indian philosophy. Good, Teresa getting exposed day after day. Truth always comes out, satyam eva jayate.
ssp27us (Uae) replies to BharatK 11 mins ago
There are 1000 of articles praising mother theresa . If this canadian author wrote an article praising , he is not getting to get any publicity . So criticizing a gr8 soul is the easiest way to get cheap publicity and he won in that objective. This article shall be ignored because it is not worth the paper it is printed on
S das (Uk) replies to BharatK 18 mins ago
Hrrrmph!
Teresa her dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it. When people said it in India pro anf anti Hindu slogans were raised.
Lennart Forsberg (Stehag) 38 mins ago
Controversial? This has been well known for many years. What makes it controversial is that the powerful catholic church has been very good at supressing the facts.
Bear (Australia) 40 mins ago
Tressa was the invention of Indian media, which is always anti-Hindu and trashi. Tressa was an Albanian, these Albanians, Muslims, crossed into Servia, illegally about 90 years ago and just five years ago declared independence of Kosvo with the help of British (British divided India on the same religious basis) and US (a British colony which was never decolonised). Tressa was the biggest fraud, like Antonia Maino and Congress. It is coming out about Tressa and it will come out about Antonia and her 40 brown thieves. Truth has the habbit of coming out, no body can suppress truth.
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Kranthi Kum ar (noida) 40 mins ago
Pointless criticism. Bottomline is that she tried, and helped millions, if not all who came to her...........she is gr8 for all
Manish Shukla (Bangalore, India) 41 mins ago
good study. i always suspected her. I am not yet fully convinced but she should be studied properly now.
concerened (india) 50 mins ago
everything said and done, she was a missionary and her main and hidden agenda was to convert as many non-Christians to Christianity, and she just did that. the rest everything was just a pretext.
GSN Murthy (Rajamahendravaram) 51 mins ago
She had a larger than life image and it is but natural that any type of study can be created . But what ever be the number of portryal of her life , she dedicated her life for redeeming the sufferings of people by creating a ray of hope, a moitivation to face hardships and a reason to be positive . It is easy to criticize with some or other trivial fonding but it is imposssible to emulate her .
shanti (mumbai) 55 mins ago
Most Indians love her and are proud of her. What her motivation was only she knows. Being a Christian she naturally followed christian teachings but her work has been seen by any number of Indians so all this analysis of her motives serves no urpose. No ordinary person can do what she did. most people will cross the road to avoid a leper, she took care of them hands on. That is good enough for me. Live for one day like she did and then talk!! I would not do what she did for all the fame and money in the world.
Kashim andya (London) replies to shanti 25 mins ago
After reading the research paper, you still seem to be die hard follower of the saint of the media.The findings of the research was general knowledge to the Indians and Hindus in particular. The saint hood bestowed on her by the Vatican was only to ensure that the legacy is used to convert more Hindus. That it failed while she was alive itself and was completely became part of the dust bin was clear from the Indians have taken her out of their memory
Bear (Australia) replies to shanti 38 mins ago
Indians have the habbit of sucking the toes of white people. They never see the bad side of a white person or a criminal. It's in their blood.
kochu1 (Tanzania) replies to shanti 48 mins ago
yes may have this gora love. The missionaries are known fraudsters. I once had a missionary come to me saying they work among poor and live on just $200 allowance for the whole family to survive etc. I gave $100 donation also. Then for some reason their phone was not working so someone wanted to give an urgent message. So i drove to their place and came into the compund unannounced. What do i see!!! I see a spread wortn more than $100 and wine and whatnot under a beach umbrella with the orphans they were supposed to help serving them like slaves!!!!! I was aghast. Thats missionaries for you. There are more unsavoury african missionary stories.
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G S PATI (Bhubanesw ar) 56 mins ago
FIRE NEVER EXTINGUISHES AND TRUTH NEVER DIES.
pram (usa) 56 mins ago
The only purpose for which she was in India was to convert as many as possible into Christianity.For that she was given sainthood.The people these days just read the news and believe whatever is fed to them.She was product of a well funded media campaign ,otherwise why did she need hospitals when she could treat everybody by her prayers or touch?All the missionaries have just one purpose-conversion.That is the reason all muslim countries have banned or expelling these missionaries.Just see in any missionary school/hospital there are only christian employees!
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