Fr. Barron comments on Mother Teresa and her Sisters

[samuelsixvids]

Father have u seen the christopher's hitchens documentary about mother teresa?? what do you think about it?

[bheadh]

A famous Mother Teresa quote: "A nation that kills it's own children is a nation without hope. If mothers are able to kill their own children, then who in society is safe?". If the most innocent and most helpless of "victims" (You know, our CHILDREN) are snuffed out before they're born, none of us is safe. Who are they going to vote to say it's "O.K." to kill next? Similar to the The Nuremburg "laws"..etc. It's really law-lessness. This sick, bloody, scourge of hell has got to stop. God, mercy.

[n3hemiah]

In order to believe that Mother Teresa was not a saintly woman, one must only see that she accepted hundreds of millions (or billions) of dollars with the understanding that she would use it for health care, and spent nary a fraction of it on those in her care.

Even assuming the truth of Catholicism, and that conversion is the highest goal, she inexcusably allowed unspeakable suffering to continue when relieving it would come at no real cost to her other goals, including spiritual ones.

[wordonfirevideo]

@n3hemiah Friend, there are so many misleading and erroneous statements here that I scarcely know where to begin...

[n3hemiah]

@wordonfirevideo I thought I was quite clear. I'll put my propositions in numbered form.

1. Mother Teresa accepted billions of dollars in donations with the understanding that she'd help the poor.

2. This money could have built many good hospitals, even after fulfilling spiritual purposes.

3. Her centers currently crowd people onto adjacent cots with little to no modern health care (medications, painkillers, etc.)

4. People suffer brutally as a result.

5. Sins of inaction are still sins.

[wordonfirevideo]

@n3hemiah Numbering them has not made them less erroneous! The donations that Mother Teresa's order has taken in over the years (which certainly do not even come close to a billion dollars) have been used for a wide variety of purposes, but mostly to establish centers for her work all over the world. Her sisters, furthermore, are all trained nurses and they use all the modern medicines appropriate to their level of training. I guess you're a "glass is half empty" kind of guy!

[dog1dog2]

@n3hemiah I'll say that you have likely made 1 significant error (though it could be argued to be semantical)- it is quite unlikely that she took in donations that reached "billions of dollars," (plural)...though this itself raises interesting concerns...(how many millions was it?) I think that it takes an abundance of ignorance, confirmation bias, and cognitive dissonance to have any serious knowledge of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu and conclude that she was mostly good, let alone a "saint."

[BiffaTW]

I would love to see you in particular answer directly the arguments and accusations laid against Mother Teresa by Hitchens, not because I think his arguments have any weight, but because I think they need to be directly addressed and I havent seen anybody do so.

[mjduke27]

Calcutta*

[mjduke27]

I think instead of using the money to make a documentary on Catholicism and then coming back to the U.S. and reflecting on the trip, it would have been more useful to put that money to buy medicine and food for the people of Kolkata.

[wordonfirevideo]

@mjduke27 It seems to me that both are good things. The reason Mother Teresa's order is well known is the documentary that Malcolm Muggeridge did in 1970: "Something Beautiful For God."

[studentquestor]

@mjduke27 That's what you call apostolate, or charism. Some people, like Fr. Barron, can serve the Church through answering questions on the Faith. Some people, like Mother Teresa, are called to serve for the poor.

[efungfai]

Unfortunately Mother Teresa is still receiving ugly accusations, notably from people like Hitchens and Penn& Teller so on. I believe these will derive people to think that she was a corrupt and a fraud.

You referenced Mother Teresa in many of your videos, your purpose of Wordonfire is to defend Catholicism against these misrepresentations; I think you are obligated use your talent to defend Mother Teresa against these accusations and let people know the truth father.

[wordonfirevideo]

@efungfai What do you think I'm doing here?! I've also got a lengthy section on Mother Teresa in the Catholicism Project.

[efungfai]

@wordonfirevideo My apologies, I should’ve viewed more of your Catholicism project vids. My wish is that your project (or any other projects like this) becomes well known to people as Penn& Teller’s BS or Hitchens’ channel. But as of now many people in the internet are still only familiar with these biased videos.

[zearro53]

@efungfai penn & teller are lightweights but I give more credence to Hitchin's criticism's such as whether Mother Theresa should have associated with the likes of Papa Doc. In recent years Hitchins has been more complimentary about Mother Theresa. Both by the way are pro-life though obviously not for all the same reasons, Hitchins being an atheist and not seeing contraception as an extension of abortion. Contraception (and masturbation) prevents millions of sperm from becoming life.

[Seakinnfiendin]

@zearro53 It is not catholic teaching that a sperm is to be protected. Monty Python's classic "Every sperm is sacred" is funny, but not the position of the Church. Before conception it is irrelevant, if some sperm or egg cease to exist.

[Naturalhit]

Mother Teresa will always be my patron saint.

[studentquestor]

@Naturalhit Let's pray for a miracle required for her canonization.

[josephdc22]

Beautiful reflection!

[thoughtadventure]

JOY!!!

[moveaxebx]

Truth spoken.

[anXVI]

This really made me realize a lot of things. Thank you.

[coraheart09]

Yes, indeed! I have shared Fr. Barron's You tube account to my facebook account already. I will share it to my personal account too. Thanks for the suggestion. God bless Father Barron and Michael J. King whom suggested and shared me Father Barron's You tube channel.

[CarcharodonMeg]

It is only Christian to do all we can to help people in parts of the world like Calcutta. The world always needs people like Mother Teresa. What troubles me is that many Catholics are going out of their way to ignore the principle of Subsidiarity to advocate for statist regimes mandating a redistribution of wealth. Defeating these arguments will be quite the battle in coming years, as TRUE human charity cannot flourish in such a society. (*Catechism #1882-1883*)

[livelaughlove311]

truth!

[coraheart09]

Why is it some people ignores Religious Clips rather few only are watching? such a shame!!! if only they know we are nothing without God.

[john2000young]

@coraheart09

So why not share this video to as many people as you can.

[1r1shCath0l1c]

Fr. Barron, One of the themes you find over and over again in the writings of Mother Teresa -- as well as many other saints -- is the detachment of oneself from human beings, creatures and worldly things so as to be filled with God alone. If you look at their lives, there seems to be an indissoluble connection between this principle and the practice of "making your life a gift to others" that you mentioned. What exactly is the connection between the two --

[1r1shCath0l1c]

-- namely, between being filled with God alone and making your life a gift to others?

God Bless,

Irish Catholic