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Offline Augstine Baker

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Mother Teresa in the News about Protecting Jesuit Heretic
« on: January 12, 2012, 01:56:54 PM »
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  • Edit: How hard could it be to discover that this Jesuit who was arrested in Chicago of all places, was a stinking heretic who would have been justifiably whipped and thrown into an ecclesiastical prison in better days?

    http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/2931744/

    The death of journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens last month gave those familiar with his work a chance to revisit one of his more controversial subjects: the Albanian nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known to the world as Mother Teresa. In his 1997 book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Hitchens argued that the "Saint of Calcutta," who founded and headed the international Missionaries of Charity order, enjoyed undeserved esteem.

    Despite her humanitarian reputation and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa had set up a worldwide system of "homes for the dying" that routinely failed to provide adequate care to patients, Hitchens argued — an appraisal shared by The Lancet, a respected medical journal. Mother Teresa also associated with, and took large sums of money from, disreputable figures such as American savings-and-loan swindler Charles Keating and the dictatorial Duvalier family of Haiti.

    Notwithstanding these black marks on an otherwise sterling reputation, Mother Teresa — who died in 1997 and is now on the fast track to a formal proclamation of sainthood by the Vatican — was never known to have been touched by the scandal that would rock the Roman Catholic Church in the decade after her death: the systematic protection of child-molesting priests by church officials.

    Yet docuмents obtained by SF Weekly suggest that Mother Teresa knew one of her favorite priests was removed...


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    Mother Teresa in the News about Protecting Jesuit Heretic
    « Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 02:24:08 PM »
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  • Wow... excellent post AB.


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    Mother Teresa in the News about Protecting Jesuit Heretic
    « Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 09:29:59 PM »
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  • I am not generally a fan of Mr. Hitchens, but I would strongly suggest every one read this book.
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    Mother Teresa in the News about Protecting Jesuit Heretic
    « Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 10:25:30 PM »
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  • Did anyone actually read the article? Mother Theresa only knew what Fr. Hardon told her about Fr. McGuire and he whitewashed it and made him seem innocent, apparently.

    SF Gate should be ashamed for their salaciously misleading title.