Mother Teresa's Canonization and her history

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I was reading about Licio Gelli, a freemason that was involved in many crimes, specially in Italy, and I was surprised that Mother Teresa supported him when he was nominated to a Nobel Prize of Literature.

So, I researched more about it, and came with this answer in quora:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-real-story-of-Mother-Teresa

Aside from the obvious anticatholic bias, if what the person answering is true, wouldn’t that make Teresa’s life so controversial that she wouldn’t be canonized? I understand that controversial people can also go to Heaven, but they aren’t the ones usually canonized…
 
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Aside from the obvious anticatholic bias, if what the person answering is true, wouldn’t that make Teresa’s life so controversial that she wouldn’t be canonized?
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Obviously the Vatican didn’t see a problem, as she’s been canonized for years and will stay canonized.

The Vatican studies these causes in-depth for years before they canonize someone. I sincerely doubt some random person on Quora is coming up with some new insight that Rome didn’t know or didn’t consider.

When there’s “obvious anticatholic bias”, why would you even consider such statements worthy of discussion? They’re about on the same level with the random trolls who go on Youtube and post that Pope John Paul II is burning in hell.
 
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Well, I agree, but as many people repeat this kind of thing, I thought they were true…
 
Last year, I took part in the sport event, and stopped passing through the Macedonian town where Mother Teresa was born.
I had limited time and it was not possible to visit the tour dedicated to this person.
I think that there are saints who, assisting the most miserable, pass almost through that hell, as these unhappy ones, and in a fit of emotions on their lips there can be one thing and in the heart something completely different.
Jesus experienced the horror of God of abandonment (which is even hard for us to imagine), and Jesus also lived on earth seeing his Calvary.
Sometimes it seems to us in Scripture that David or Job loses faith.
Sometimes when reading Clive Lewis, it can be assumed that he lost faith at the end of his life.
I think that the saints in life often have this kind of law of undulating alternation, from the horrors of mental or physical suffering, to the Lord’s consolation and joy in faith.
( (Although we cannot compare our Savior with the others, for he defeated by faith the forces of hell)
 
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By the way, I confused the town where Vanga was born, this town is Strumitsa. In this town, I stopped for a day before reaching Macedonia, now this country was renamed the Republic of Skopje. And Mother Teresa is from Skopje.
In my memory I confused Vangа a bit with Mother Teresa.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Obviously the Vatican didn’t see a problem, as she’s been canonized for years and will stay canonized.

The Vatican studies these causes in-depth for years before they canonize someone. I sincerely doubt some random person on Quora is coming up with some new insight that Rome didn’t know or didn’t consider.
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To expand on this, most, if not all, anti-Mother Teresa sentiment can be traced back to Christopher Hitchens, who the guy in the Quora answer quotes at the end. Hitchens was on the attack against Mother Teresa even before her death, so it seems incredibly unlikely that the investigators didn’t know about his criticism or look into it.

And to quote William A. Donohue on Hitchens’s book:
It contains no footnotes, no citations of any kind. There is a role for this genre, but it is not associated with serious scholarship, and it certainly isn’t associated with works that make strong allegations against public persons. Rather, it is associated with the gossip pages of, say, a Vanity Fair
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You can read the full thing here. It has some problems with perhaps being a bit too spiteful, but it offers a counter to many of Hitchens’s most notable claims.
 
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Lots of people repeat lots of things. That has little bearing on the truth. Take a simple math statement 2+2=4. Why do you believe it? Not because everyone else does, but because you can easily prove it to yourself mathematically. Likewise, lots of people believe that the Book of Mormon is inspired. But we Catholics dont?, Why? It has nothing to do with the number of people who find it true or the number that find it false.
 
In addition to Hitchens being the propagator of this evil propaganda, even if Mother Teresa made some mistakes in trusting the wrong people from time to time, so what? Saints aren’t perfect. Saints are human and occasionally make mistakes. Mother Teresa’s life work was to try to give poor people in one part of the world a place to die with dignity, not to be a one-woman expert on international diplomacy or to perfectly know the background of every person she met. She did not set out to be a worldwide sensation or to get in the public eye or even to become a saint. She surely would have said she was not worthy to be a saint. She was just trying to show God’s love for some poor people.
 
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How many poor people did this David Hitchens help?
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Probably zero. Hitchens spent his time smoking, drinking, and being a pundit. In addition to writing a nastily-titled book criticizing Mother Teresa, he wrote a similar book about Billy Graham and called him “a disgustingly evil man”. Obviously these highly regarded figures were chosen to get attention for Hitchens and also pander to an anti-religious fan base.
Hitchens has been dead since 2011 so if one is feeling charitable one might pray for his soul.
 
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Mother Theresa was very popular in the media until she made statements against abortion.
Then they needed to scramble for reasons to discredit her.
 
Loving people even though they are sinners is not a hindrance to achieving heaven, in fact, it is a prerequisite.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
Mother Theresa was very popular in the media until she made statements against abortion.
Then they needed to scramble for reasons to discredit her.
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You are correct. If she were alive today, Mother Theresa would probably be much more vilified than she was back when she was alive. Even many clergy in the Church today would probably have a problem with her for being so outspoken against abortion.
 
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