And for all that, a CNN broadcast treated her death as an afterthought to "St. Diana" with the lead-in: Another good woman died today.

To liberals, the way you fight disease, poverty, hopelessness is: you make people "aware" of it. It's all about "awareness"...hence all the "awareness" ribbons. You make people aware, you solicit money from wealthy individuals and big organziations, you visit and take a few pictures. You don't actually get down in the gutter and wash people's dirty feet. Oh, and you don't take money from people like Charles Keating or Duvalier.

And I love this one:

She would help the individual in front of her without stopping to look
back at the larger picture that surrounded her in a particular country." -Matt Lauer

So in Lauer's mind she should have been agitating for more "government" or international agency help for the people instead.

Blessed Mother Teresa (she has been beatified and is on her way to Sainthood) lived life according to the principles of the saint she whose name she bears. St. Therese, the "Little Flower of Jesus" had a philosophy called "the little way", which was to "do little things, with great love."

I doubt when she faced her God, that He said to her, "You know, you probably could have helped a lot more people if you got a government program going."

...She would help the individual in front of her without stopping to look back at the larger picture that surrounded her in a particular country."

Spoken by someone who has most likely never left his posh Manhatten apartment to so much as wipe the nose of a homeless mental patient.

Richard Blystone quickly identified Mother Teresa as the enemy of Earth worship: "The forceful personality and unswerving beliefs put her in conflict with several Western liberal ideals. Among them, the notion that feeding the poor only perpetuates poverty, and hunger should be attacked at its root with seeds and hoes and population control. Not her job, she said.... And her opposition to contraception, divorce and abortion drew active and vocal criticism, but she was not to be turned."

Well, yeah, exactly.  M.T. assumed the role of servant of God and, by that, servant of the poor.  But I find the whole seeds and hoes argument laughable.  THIS from the side that insists billions of $$ and tons of food be sent to such poor nations (all left as political fodder for the corrupt governments in power to confiscate).  Also, population control ... this too is a contridiction by the critics.  While M.T. stayed true to her ideological/religious beliefs on the matter, the left seems comfortable bouncing back and forth on the issue when it suits their debate against someone of faith.  These are the same people who insist we must treat and cure AIDS in Africa ... HOWEVER, we are NOT to preach or seek to impose safe sex, abstinence and monogamy AND even birth control to them and interfere in their culture. 

The left sees every new birth as a burden on society.  While people such as M.T. believe every new life is a new hope for the future.

Simon declared: "It wasn't her support of the Church so much as her tolerance of tyrants and criminals that began to draw criticism in the 1980s. She accepted millions for her missions from the dictatorial Duvalier family in Haiti, and from convicted savings and loan executive Charles Keating in the United States....

Oh, I see ... Al Gore and the Global Warming Cult(ists) get to purchase carbon credits/offsets ... But corrupt folks can't purchase offsets for their immortal souls by sending money to charity? M.T. didn't judge them ... It wasn't for her to do so.  However, perhaps through her accepting their donations God blessed them and forgave them just a little? (You see, the nuances of this are much too complex for the left to comprehend ...)

Hitchens criticized Mother Teresa's enthusiasm for the dignity of poverty as 'Middle Age theology,' a destructive comfort to keep people poor, rather than give them the means or inspiration to rise up.

Hitch is bit of a two-sided coin for me.  The man is dead-on right in his views of terrorism, radical Islam, and the war(s).  However, his strident anti-religious views can be a sharp kick to the stomach of someone who cheers when they hear him speak out against terrorism (and much of that is fed by his anti-religious views). But what makes his stand against M.T. so ugly is the fact that this was one, small frail woman who worked her fingers to the bones, and Hitch went after her as if she were some massive institution to be knocked down.  He just cannot comprehend her crawling down into the dust with those she yerned to help. As for dignity ... She knew it was all that many/most of them had left ... and without dignity as a foundation there was no where to reach up from.  Again, the left (through Hitchens) selectively moves in and out of defending an individual culture ... Where M.T. was, the people she helped, were the lowest of a culture that practiced a Cast system of society.  The cows that roamed the streets were higher on the social scale than these poor people.

I can't get over that nickname for Di. Just a regular English girl who caught the eye of the heir to throne, a moden day Cinderella. Wait a minute, her daddy was in the House of Lords.

I have a saying which Charlton Heston said in Will Penny, "Yeah good old Claud, but how was he really before he bucked off".

It is in that which I always view the good old Claud's in this world held up by cultures as the people we should adore and make saints. The Diana I seem to recall was a rather goofy, childish, adulteress who later went on to embarrass the Royal Family, dated a Muslim which is forbidden for Christian Royals, fornicated and then died among drunks.

That doesn't sound like much of a saint to me, but no more than gal named Theresia who spent allot of money on poor people but did not make a practice of investing in them to get them out of poverty. She followed a teaching in Rome which calls the Pope (which literally is Pater not Simon Peter) Papa or Father and Jesus forbid anyone having that Spiritual title except God the Father Himself.

Neither of these women seemed before they bucked out to have a whole lot on the ball when one discerns what is Biblical in all Biblical forms. That though is for God to judge and for people to only discern and not get caught up in following people who always let us down.

That reminds me of David, King of Israel. When Samuel the Prophet was sent to anoint a new king he looked at all of David's brothers and would have chosen any of them, but God said, "I look upon a person's heart and not how people judge in appearance".

David's grandmother was from Jordan, a rather heathen culture, but left it all behind as a daughter of Moab to come to Israel and make her mother in laws' God, her God.

She cared for the older woman, exposed herself to molestation in harvesting grain for them and found favor with an old man named Boaz who was related to her mother in law. This woman's name was Ruth and chose the route of quietly providing for her family and honoring societal commitments she didn't have to and married Boaz.

From her came David, the greatest king Israel ever know and the line of Jesus the Christ. Ruth was chosen for humble obedience and to show that even Jesus on His human side had too been adopted in by Grace........for even David was by blood covenant adopted by Jonathan, King Saul's son into the Royal household of Israel.

So when I see debates on Diana vs. Theresia like it is some WWE ring match, I instead look at people like my Mom who has put up with more than these 2 women ever dealt with. There are thousands of these women in the world going unnoticed and the world would fall apart without them. They are the ones who check on the old neighbor whose kids are too busy to and the ones who show up in just caring about people when a child dies or someone is alone in the hospital.

That is what God looks upon in the heart and in conclusion anyone who believes Jesus is thee Son of God, tries to live their life in a good Way and is not seeking out sin but leaving it behind in the regeneration of the Gift of the Holy Spirit as children of God is a Saint. Sainthood has nothing to do with Pope edicts.......a Saint is simply a child of God.

Perhaps if Diana and Theresia had invested more time in that message no one would be fighting now over non sense in "my saint is bigger than yours".

It is all part of the ages for them when the books are opened up and none of this discussion matters now.

God bless and as the Latin promises, Here lies David, the once and future King.

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