Mother Teresa Corruption

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Mother Teresa, the epitome of Catholic Charity and a beacon of hope to all of the suffering across the world. Since her teenage years, she was interested in charity work. When she was a teenager she went to Ireland to become part of a religious convent and start her journey as a nun [World Biography n.d.]. Her duteous suffering for Catholicism conveniently masks her greater disregard of the people that entrusted her with their lives. Mother Teresa garnered the blessing of the Church for her spread of Catholicism, not her humanitarian work. In fact, Mother Teresa’s canonization reflects the greater corruption of the Catholic Church. By using the term corruption I mean someone that is both dishonest and hypocritical. Mother Teresa checks both …show more content…
It is clearly evident why she was picked as a saint in the Catholic Church, the home of child molesters across the world. Notably, there were no records kept of any of the donations that were given to Mother Teresa’s homes. Perhaps this is not the most suspicious thing ever, says only the people who were involved in the inner circles of Mother Teresa’s cult-like organizations. To clarify, across the world Mother Teresa’s nun’s spent days counting and sorting the billions of dollars that she received from across the world. Mother Teresa ignored the transparency laws of countries that stated she must declare records of the charity donations she received [Vaidyanathan 15]. Consequently, Mother Teresa frequented dubious social circles taking money from the infamous Duvalier family and Charles Keating. After eagerly accepting their money with open arms, Mother Teresa went as far as praising both of these men that embezzled and stole money from their constituents and workers respectively[Hitchens 03]. According to the Stern Magazine, a grand total of 7% of the donations were used for charity. No one knows where the rest of the money went. [Thomas 10.]But, the negative consequences associated with Mother Teresa’s corruption is clearly evident in the quality of Mother Teresa’s clinics across the world which were dilapidated and lackluster. The …show more content…
Mother Teresa was not a savior, instead, she was antithetical to the preservation of life across the world causing many deaths. In preaching against the sins of the devil and becoming so focused on the Catholic Church’s agenda she might have become a devil-like figure

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