Blessed Mother Teresa was not a good Catholic - from the view of traditional Catholic thought - in that she caused suffering but in that she attempted to teach others to patiently endure their suffering. No one can deny, furthermore, that what she wrote was very inspirational.
I have not seen anyone work so much with and amongst the poor and the suffering or who drew people to work with and amongst the poor and the suffering. I know of one non-Catholic Christian who went to Calcutta and volunteered some time with the Missionaries of Charity and nothing but glowing praises for the mission.
If one has disagreements with traditionalist/faithful Catholicism, then one will certainly have disagreements with what Mother Teresa did and said. But she worked within and for the perspective of Catholicism, and she was very faithful and good in that perspective. She was in and of herself certainly not evil.
And one should pay attention to the name: Missionaries of Charity. It is the duty of missionaries to evangelize the world as well as provide certain charitable services. This is right in line with His Holiness Pope John Paul II’s intentions. Faithful Catholics in the US stress “our Holy Father’s call for a new evangelization” - the Holy father’s encouragement of Catholics to exercise their apostolate in evangelizing Catholics, non-Catholic Christians to Catholicism, non-Christians to Catholic Catholicism, and promoting the values of faithful/traditionalist Catholicism.
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In the eyes of faithful Catholics (that is, those who are aligned with the Holy See and the Holy Father), she certainly is a saint. She was not perfect - indeed, in Catholic thought and theology only God can be perfect, and so even saints are imperfect - but she is seen as saintly.
panache45 - I am afraid I disagree with the theory that people are directly responsible for their beliefs. A person’s beliefs are often the result of social conditioning, who one’s authorities (as in, those whom one respects as and listens to as authorities) were, and other circumstances beyond their control. If people began to examine their beliefs and consciously choose what to believe and what not to, there’d be fewer bigots. As it is, people are not going to revise and throw away their entire world-view and everything they learned.
Sampiro - I found your parody of the process of sainthood to be offensive. If you’d like to make fun of the Catholic Church, please start your own thread. If you’d like to discuss sainthood, please start your own thread. As it is, the question asked by js_africanus was sufficiently answered by Guinastasia.
WRS - who wishes people could learn to disagree with respect