Writes Hitchens: "As for the "miracle' that had to be attested, what can
one say? Surely any respectable Catholic cringes with shame at the
obviousness of the fakery. A Bengali woman named Monica Besra claims
that a beam of light emerged from a picture of (Teresa), which she
happened to have in her home, and relieved her of a cancerous tumor. Her
physician, Dr Ranjan Mustafi, says that she didn't have a cancerous
tumor in the first place and that the tubercular cyst she did have was
cured by a course of prescription medicine. Was he interviewed by the
Vatican's investigators? No."
POVERTY HUGGER
Teresa, clearly, wasn't a friend of the poor; she was a friend of poverty. What has she and her charity achieved in the last six decades in Calcutta? Virtually nothing except give the city, and India by association, a very bad name.
Today, large swathes of India are entering the First World thanks to hard word and free enterprise. On the other hand, Calcutta, virtually alone among India's cities, seems stuck in LDC mode. While its long marriage with Marxism may have something to with the lack of progress, the presence of the poverty mongers ensures the city finds it impossible to shake off its Third World image. Teresa's fundraising sermons have drilled into people's mind that it is a city of lepers and beggars. On one instance, the nuns claimed, untruthfully of course, that Calcutta had 450,000 lepers, knowing that the rich have a poor conscience and would promptly despatch their dollars.
THE LEGACY
The Vatican's mythmakers will surely send Mother Teresa climbing up the sainthood charts. Today, her charities have attained untouchable status, which helps them fend off any attempts by the authorities to stop their morbid experiments on sick and poor people trapped in Teresa's dystopian world.
Charity isn't what it used to be.
POVERTY HUGGER
Teresa, clearly, wasn't a friend of the poor; she was a friend of poverty. What has she and her charity achieved in the last six decades in Calcutta? Virtually nothing except give the city, and India by association, a very bad name.
Today, large swathes of India are entering the First World thanks to hard word and free enterprise. On the other hand, Calcutta, virtually alone among India's cities, seems stuck in LDC mode. While its long marriage with Marxism may have something to with the lack of progress, the presence of the poverty mongers ensures the city finds it impossible to shake off its Third World image. Teresa's fundraising sermons have drilled into people's mind that it is a city of lepers and beggars. On one instance, the nuns claimed, untruthfully of course, that Calcutta had 450,000 lepers, knowing that the rich have a poor conscience and would promptly despatch their dollars.
THE LEGACY
The Vatican's mythmakers will surely send Mother Teresa climbing up the sainthood charts. Today, her charities have attained untouchable status, which helps them fend off any attempts by the authorities to stop their morbid experiments on sick and poor people trapped in Teresa's dystopian world.
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