Mother Teresa On Funding
From a great article by Navin Chawla on Mother Teresa: "In the course of researching my biography on Mother Teresa, I asked her why she took money from dodgy characters like Duvalier. Her answer was concise. In charity, she said, everyone had a right to give. How was this different from thousands of people who each day feed the poor? “I have no right to judge them, God alone has that right.” And again, “I accept no salary, no grant, no government or church funds, nothing. I do not ask for money. But people have a right to give.” Meanwhile, I researched the Duvalier story. She had set up a small mission in Port-au-Prince, one of the world’s most desperately poor places. A day after Mother Teresa visited and left, Duvalier’s daughter-in-law went to Mother Teresa’s mission and donated 1,000 dollars. It was not, as was reported, a million dollars, but Mother Teresa’s reply would still have been the same: if that gives peace to the giver, so be it."
Posted by Somik Raha on Aug 26, 2013
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On Sep 2, 2013 Mark Jacobs wrote:
Don't get me wrong: Mother Teresa was in many ways a compelling and inspiring figure. But she is also emblematic of our desire to paint our heroes in black and white. She was a tremendously problematic figure and MoC a tremendously problematic organization. We should each decide for ourselves whether the example she provided of compassion-in-action outweighed or was outweighed-by her ethical shortcomings. I'm perfectly comfortable with folks who do that moral math differently than I do. What I have difficulty with is the thoroughgoing whitewashing.
On Aug 27, 2013 Guri Mehta wrote:
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