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Mother Teresa accompanied by children at her mission in Calcutta, India 05/12/1980 Getty
The news has hit the headlines of pretty much every British
newspaper this morning: Mother Teresa has ocially been made
a saint. Following two successive conrmed miracles (dont get
me started), she is today being ocially recognised.
With everything thats happening in the world, why is this
particular person getting so much posthumous airtime? The
Catholic Church, after all, doesnt enjoy the same access to our
political system as the Church of England, so whats the
relevance here? Well, its quite simple really Mother Teresa was
a celebrity, with a very well-managed brand.
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Ask most people what they think about Mother Teresa and theyll
say something vague about what a good person she was, how
benevolent, self-sacricing and generally lovely. I have absolute
sympathy with this stance; thats been the pretty consistent
thread throughout the news coverage of her, both in life and after
death.
Im not going to go down the well-trodden route of criticising a
person that Christopher Hitchens (who played the role of devils
advocate in the discussions surrounding her canonisation) once
famously dubbed a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf thats been
done before, and by people with gifts of expression far superior
to my own.
Much of the criticism levelled at Mother Teresa centres around
the way she promoted views of the Catholic Church that many
would see as dogmatic. Take her stance on contraception: In
destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a
husband or wife is doing something to self. This turns the
attention to self and so destroys the gift of love in him or her.
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Abortion? She didnt hold back with that either: I always say one
thing: If a mother can kill her own child, then what is left of the
West to be destroyed? It is dicult to explain, but it is just that.
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Douglas unless you have done something for india's poor you
are nothing and so have nothing to say.
So keep quiet
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Pathetic.
A married couple should not need contraception because they
should receive children as gifts of God. I wonder what the
AIDS and sexually transmitted disease rates are between a
monogamous couple? Very low.
Abortion. 98% of the 200,000 unborn babies aborted in the
UK each year are completely healthy and 81% of the women
are single according to the Department of Health. In the US,
the Guttmacher Institute found that 1% of abortions were due
to rape and less than 0.5% due to incest.
Therefore, the vast majority of abortions are the killing of
healthy unborn children conceived with consent to single
women. Not a good picture especially given the mental
distress women feel after abortion and putting themselves at
risk in transient relationships. Wake up to the facts. The
Catholic church supports the family and human life in a
brilliant and sensible way.
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