Do you mean to do the wrong thing for the right reason? What was her greater good?
I think thats what was being conveyed. “reward” contradicts a general understanding of the word.
In case you were not aware, Keating’s convictions were overturned. He ultimately entered a guilty plea to bankruptcy fraud, acts that occurred well after he donated money to Mother Teresa. But he maintained his innocence with respect to stealing money from anyone, and indeed he has never been found guilty of such acts.
Investors did win a civil judgment against him, to be sure, but I cannot think of a single example of a charity returning money years after the fact in response to learning that the contributions they got arose from civil fraud. For example, Madoff made charitable contributions when his empire was (fraudulently) flying high, and I have never heard of any of those contributions being repaid. Have you? In fact, can you name a single instance in which any charity has received donations from activity that was later alleged to be non-criminal but a breach of fiduciary duty…and then returned it?
Are you suggesting that some special rule should apply to Mother Teresa in this regard?
I know this reply is late, but I was thinking about it for a while… Mother Teresa died 20 years ago… LOL
And on the day he was convicted, Angels flew down and told the Sainted Mother that she should hang on to the money for the next four and a half years, because God would eventually get around to setting Keating free (by sending a divinely inspired finding of legal error, mind you–not due to any witnesses recanting or any exonerating evidence emerging).
I was aware that Saints could be sinners - they kind of have to be, if they’re supposed to be human - but I’m surprised to learn that “saint” just means that they’re in heaven. How does the miracle-working play into that? How does working a miracle when you’re alive demonstrate that you went to heaven when you died? It seems, at best, that it shows you’re solid with god at the time of the miracle, but if we have free will, even a miracle worker must have the capacity to screw it all up before the end and not make it through the pearly gates after they die.
Also:
From Wikipedia:
Lance fucking Ito? Jesus! Was there any high profile trial that guy didn’t fuck up?
Well, based only what I’ve read in Wikipedia, Mother Teresa apparently, [ul]
[li]Took funds from right-wing dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, who embezzled from Haiti[/li][li]used insufficient pain relievers relative to other hospices because she thought suffering was great[/li][li]had insufficient medical professionals, so that medical decisions were made by those without training. The order could not distinguish between curable and incurable patients.[/li][li]did not isolate patients with tuberculosis,[/li][li]used warm water to clean syringes. Actually I thought this one was the most damning, oddly. Because it was indicative of an underlying problem.[/li][li]the fact that they actually weren’t the largest charity in Calcutta makes one suspect that they misled their donors somewhat. Or at least some of them.[/li][/ul] Frankly though, I’m not fully convinced. I don’t have a firm grasp on what are aberrations and what are standard practices. I don’t know whether the fund raising truly misrepresented what happened. I’m getting a hatchet job vibe from some of these reports, but that may or may not be a false signal.
Something to do with the capital of New York State.
The miracles that count for sainthood are ones that occur after the prospective saint’s death. The idea is that they demonstrate that the person is in Heaven and able to intercede directly with God (which they would be if they were in Purgatory or Hell).
Martyrs, those who died for their faith, can be declared saints without the necessity of a miracle.
I can’t be the only one who just assumed this had already happened.
I saw her name trending on social media, but so was Nate Dogg. I thought maybe it was also the anniversary of her death and never thought about either being made a saint.
The church does not consider sainthood an “award”. You may disagree with them, but Smapti is correct about the church’s beliefs. Canonization is the simple acknowledgement that a person is in Heaven, according to the Catholic church’s teachings. (Just because you don’t believe as they do doesn’t change their teachings)
Well she is a fucking Saint so yeah I expect better out of her. You know, like setting a good example.
I just did a quick Google and found $45 million in Madoff gains.
http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/hadassah-to-return-45-million-in-madoff-investment-gains
She claimed that she allowed sick people to suffer avoidable pain because the suffering brought them closer to God. It would be one thing if she sincerely believed this - she might be delusional but at least in her mind she would be helping people.
But if she didn’t believe that God was present - and she privately admitted she did not throughout all the time she was in India - then that suffering was achieving nothing. She was having people suffer for no reason.
That bit sounds a lot like a certain carpenter from northern Israel. I can see criticism about how to spend it, but anybody who thinks only “clean money” should be accepted as charity have no idea what charity means.
Ito is a short fella, right? This Theresa woman was five foot tall (though not a dwarf). Maybe Randy Newman was onto something.
Ah, Indulgence does work.
By this reasoning, it is “weak” to deplore the fact that the Nazi regime rewarded people for figuring out ways to kill Jews more efficiently.
The necessary miracles are generally post-mortem, and intended to show that the claimed saint is in Heaven, and thus in a great position to whisper in God’s ear. The miracle that elevated her to sainthood happened in December 2008, in which a man with a viral brain infection and multiple abscesses had failed to respond to treatment and was in a coma. His wife had prayed for Mother Teresa’s intercession and the surgeon reported that when he entered the operating room, the man sat up and asked, “What am I doing here?” There was no medical explanation for the sudden reversal and he showed no symptoms of the previous ailment.
The point being that Mother Teresa died in 1997.