Pope recognises second Mother Teresa miracle, sainthood expected

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Pope Francis has recognised a second medical miracle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the beloved nun to be elevated to sainthood next year, Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported Thursday.

Mother Teresa, celebrated for her work with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata, is expected to be officially canonised in Rome on September 4 as part the pope's Jubilee year of mercy, according to the newspaper's Vatican expert Stefania Falasca.

The move comes after a panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed a miraculous healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumours to Mother Teresa, Avvenire reported.

Teresa, who was born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia, was known across the world for her charity work. She died in 1997 at the age of 87.

Nicknamed the "Saint of the Gutters", she dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, one of India's biggest cities. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

She was beatified by then pope John Paul II in a fast-tracked process in 2003, in a ceremony attended by some 300,000 pilgrims. Beatification is a first step towards sainthood.

In 2002, the Vatican officially recognised a miracle she was said to have carried out after her death, namely the 1998 healing of a Bengali tribal woman, Monika Besra, who was suffering from an abdominal tumour.

The traditional canonisation procedure requires at least two miracles.

Her canonisation is again expected to draw large crowds to Rome for what will likely be one of the highlights of the special Jubilee year.

Pope recognises second Mother Teresa miracle, sainthood expected

Who cares about the doings of a cult based on fairy stories and exploitation.

Surprising given what the Vatican knows about her.

What a joke....

It's a miracle that anyone still believes in this shite!

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...and the keen assistance that she received [not] from the Roman Church when she was alive performing practical extensions of charity.

Most would be surprised as to the unnecessary political manner in which her mission was underwritten.

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...and the keen assistance that she received [not] from the Roman Church when she was alive performing practical extensions of charity.

Most would be surprised as to the unnecessary political manner in which her mission was underwritten.

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Stop talking in fucking riddles.
If you have something to say just say it or keep your trap shut.

But cujo, you are clearly of a superfluous amalgam. The input of jeffrey is adeptly adjoined in the topical extrusion.

Jeez you wait for a long time and a couple come along together, miraculous

For those that haven't seen 'Hell's Angel', the late Christopher Hitchens' talk on Mother Theresa, then it makes for an interesting 20 minute's watching.

http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4

^Roobarb, thanks for posting that,was going to hunt around to do that myself.
Do like Christopher Hitchens giving it to the scamming old bitch.
If the dress wearing catholic bishops and the pope make her a saint then i want to be
known as ST Guinness the first when i turn up my toes.

Charles Keating was sentenced to ten years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in American history. The Savings and Loans scandal has gone down in history as one of the filthiest scams ever conducted, involving the defrauding of 17,000 people of their life savings. Many of these people were elderly, and many lost everything they owned.

Charles Keating donated 1.25 million of these stolen dollars to Mother Teresa, and also gave her the use of his private jet. At his trial the good nun sent a letter to the trial judge, Lance Ito (a man you might remember from the OJ Simpson case).

This is what Mother Teresa said on behalf of Charles Keating:
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Dear Honorable Lance Ito,

We do not mix up in Business or Politicts or courts. Our work, as Missionaries of Charity is to give wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor.

I do not know anything about Mr. Charles Keating’s work or his business or the matters you are dealing with.

I only know that he has alway been kind and generous to God’s poor, and always ready to help whenever there was a need. It is for this reason that I do not want to forget him now while he and his family are suffering. Jesus has told us “Whatever you do to the least of my brethern … YOU DID IT TO ME. Mr. Keating has done each to help the poor, which is why I am writing to you on his behalf.

Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always tell them the same thing. I ask them to pray, to look into thier heart, and to do what Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honor.

My gratitude to you is my prayer for you, and your work, your family and the people with whom you are working.

God bless you

M. Teresa
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Thinking that Mother Teresa didn’t understand how Keating had robbed countless old and vulnerable people to obtain this money, the deputy District Attorney in the case, Paul Turley wrote a personal letter, as follows:

Dear Mother Teresa

I am a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County and one of the persons who worked on the prosecution of your benefactor, Charles H. Keating, Jr. I read your letter to Judge Ito, written on behalf of Mr. Keating, which includes your admission that you know nothing about Mr. Keating’s business or the criminal charges presented to Judge Ito. I am writing to you to provide a brief explanation of the crimes of which Mr. Keating has been convicted, to give you an understanding of the source of the money that Mr. Keating gave to you, and to suggest that you perform the moral and ethical act of returning the money to its rightful owners.

Mr. Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more than $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr. Keating stole $252,000,000. Mr. Keating’s specific acts of fraud were that he was the source of a series of fraudulent representations made to persons who bought bonds from his company and he also was the repository of crucial information which he chose to withhold from bond purchasers, thereby luring his victims into believing they were making a safe, low-risk investment. In truth and in fact, their money was being used to fund Mr. Keating’s exorbitant and extravagant lifestyle.

The victims of Mr. Keating’s fraud come from a wide spectrum of society. Some were wealthy and well-educated. Most were people of modest means and unfamiliar with high finance. One was, indeed, a poor carpenter who did not speak English and had his life savings stolen by Mr. Keating’s fraud.

The biblical slogan of your organization is ‘As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me’. The ‘least’ of the brethren are among those whom Mr. Keating fleeced without flinching. As you well know, divine forgiveness is available to all, but forgiveness must be preceded by admission of sin. Not only has Mr. Keating failed to admit his sins and his crimes, he persists in self-righteously blaming others for his own misdeeds. Your experience is, admirably, with the poor. My experience has been with the ‘con’ man and the perpetrator of the fraud. It is not uncommon for ‘con’ men to be generous with family, friends and charities.

Perhaps they believe that their generosity will purchase love, respect or forgiveness. However, the time when the purchase of ‘indulgences’ was an acceptable method of seeking forgiveness died with the Reformation. No church, no charity, no organization should allow itself to be used as a salve for the conscience of the criminal. We all are grateful that forgiveness is available but we all, also, must perform our duty. That includes the Judge and the Jury. I remind myself of the biblical admonition of the Prophet Micah: ‘O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you. To do justice, love mercy and walk humbly.’

We are urged to love mercy but we must do justice.

You urge Judge Ito to look into his heart — as he sentences Charles Keating — and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would do if he were given the fruits of a crime; what Jesus would do if he were in possession of money that had been stolen; what Jesus would do if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his conscience?

I submit that Jesus would promptly and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners. You should do the same. You have been given money by Mr. Keating that he has been convicted of stealing by fraud. Do not permit him the ‘indulgence’ he desires Do not keep the money. Return it to those who worked for it and earned it!

If you contact me I will put you in direct contact with the rightful owners of the property now in your possession.

Sincerely,

Paul W. Turley

There was no reply and the money wasn’t returned.

So much for living saints. Crap

Kevin2008, nice article on the old bitch,you know she and her cohorts would never give back the money,they do not give a flying fuck where the money came from.
she got a lot of money from the dictator of haiti ,baby doc duvalier that was stolen funds and took it out of there, what was supposed to help the poor, piss off,it's going with me,she was a evil old [at][at][at][at].
also i want to be renamed instead of last post, now is ST Coopers-guinness the first.

More religious mumbo fucking jumbo from the kiddie fiddlers. Meanwhile they continue to take the last few pennies from people around the world leaving them with fuck all.

Fuck them and fuck the pope.

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More religious mumbo fucking jumbo from the kiddie fiddlers. Meanwhile they continue to take the last few pennies from people around the world leaving them with fuck all.

Fuck them and fuck the pope.

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Yep....
Observed nicely, Harry.

Good bit of information. that is KEVIN2008 seems as if they should cnut her instead, Cnut Teresa, has a nice ring to it.

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Surprising given what the Vatican knows about her.

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HMMM...strange that the Pope had never seemed to have heard of her till Malcolm Muggeridge supposedly witnessed a miracle he attributed to her.

Just more Papal 'Bull"....

Sad that millions still believe in such a hypocritical religion.....responsible for slavery,persecution, murder,torture and the extinction of civilizations....it is said that the Catholic church is the richest organization on earth....still conning and intimidating some of the poorest people on earth.....

Hypocrites one and all.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Cruel bitch she was.

Whores the lot o them.

Vatican set to approve Mother Teresa elevation to sainthood

Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican committee that approves elevations to sainthood will meet Tuesday to consider a recommendation that Mother Teresa of Calcutta becomes Saint Teresa, the Holy See announced on Monday.

With the long-awaited decision seen as a formality, Pope Francis is expected to sign a decree approving the canonisation of the 1979 Nobel peace prize winner and set a date and venue for it to happen.

The Albanian nun and missionary will be one of five candidates for sainthood considered by the Vatican panel on Tuesday but by far the most high-profile.

The canonisation is widely expected to take place on September 4, the eve of a previously-scheduled celebration of her memory.

What is unclear is whether the pope will bow to appeals from the Catholic Church in India and travel to Calcutta for the ceremony or, as Vatican sources say is more likely, preside over one in Rome.

More than 300,000 pilgrims came to Rome in 2003 for Teresa's beatification -- the first step towards sainthood.

Known across the world, Teresa was awarded the Nobel for her work with the poor, sick, old and lonely in the slums of the Calcutta, one of India's biggest cities, now known as Kolkata.

She is revered by many Catholics but has also been attacked as a "religious imperialist" who attempted to foist her beliefs on a community in which they had no indigenous roots.

Vatican set to approve Mother Teresa elevation to sainthood

Not one fan of MT on here,
Mother Theresa is more saintly than N. Mandela

Being such a public figure, she was bound to attract the wrath of TD's know-it-alls...

I have now seen the light. I never knew before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nCaxHN-cY

Euuuucccchhhh... the stench of organised religion, makes me puke

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Strange comparison.

Is it saintly to take millions of dollars in donations and then deliberately and willfully keep the people that it was intended for in terrible conditions and suffering? Not in my book.

The Book of Pismire...That'd be some read...

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I have now seen the light. I never knew before.

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Good clip.

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It's kind of inconvenient for anyone trying to modernise the catholic church that once in a while we get to see how it's all based on...well...the utterly ridiculous really.

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Not one fan of MT on here,
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And Cyrille Regis more so than Joey Barton.

How is either fact remotely relevant, exactly?

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I have now seen the light. I never knew before.

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Good show that one, quite interesting.

They also did a good segment on the Dali Lama at one point.

Yeah, interesting vid, but that fat fcking magician, what's his name, is a psychotic looking piece of shit...

The biggest miracle of the lot would be if they found an RC priest who wasn't a kiddy fiddler.

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Brendan Smyth (8 June 1927 – 22 August 1997) was a Roman Catholic priest who became notorious as a child molester, using his position in the Roman Catholic Church to obtain access to his victims. During a period of over 40 years, Smyth sexually abused and indecently assaulted over 143 children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and the United States. His actions were frequently hidden from police and the public by Roman Catholic officials. Controversy surrounding his case brought about the downfall of the government of Republic of Ireland in December 1994

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smyth

^ There's a shot of the devil, himself...

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Watched The Sisters of Magdilin the other night and the story of 3 girls who were taken into the covent/workhouses.
How on earth they got away with that place in Dublin until 1996 beggars belief.
Hell on earth.

Yea the evil walk among us dressed as respectable.

Mother theresa could have done more to ease the suffering of the sick but Image was more important. The more grisly the place looked, the happier she was.

Imagine meeting them 2 on the way to heaven.

Philomena is another film about a girl who was sent off to the workhouse, and her baby was taken from her.

The Magdalene Sisters was an eye opener - especially that it went on for so long. I bought the DVD years ago. There was a second DVD in the box, which was an interview with the real women who the film was about. That was heartwrenching to watch.

I have no sentiments on what the Catholics want to do about Mother Teresa, sainthood or not.

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The spice must flow...

Unbelievable that this shit is still going on.

The gravitational wave was finally confirmed and these religious pygmy kiddy fuckers still believe in their parlour trick shite?

Worse than coons.

Well, that will be yet another official holiday here for this year - and a traffic mess for the inevitable processions.....and Teresa to be the top name for female newborns.