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| Coren, when he still had his marbles |
I wonder how Mother Teresa of Calcutta would respond to that comment, were she still alive today. Her Missionaries of Charity continue to care for “the poorest of the poor,” described by Mother Teresa as “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.” More than 4,000 sisters run orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centres worldwide. “A beautiful death,” said Mother Teresa, “is for people who lived like animals to die like angels — loved and wanted.”
If Mother Teresa was sufficiently “active” about “poverty and injustice,” she was also well-known for her vocal and unequivocal opposition to abortion, which she described as “the greatest destroyer of peace” because “it is a direct war, a direct killing.” Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa asserted that “if a mother can kill her own child — what is left for me to kill you and you kill me — there is nothing between.” She spoke of teaching natural family planning to “our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street” as “this natural way of abstaining, of self-control, out of love for each other.” She reported that a poor person had come to thank her, saying: “You people who have vowed chastity, you are the best people to teach us family planning. Because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other.”
I don’t know whether Mr. Coren would consider Mother Teresa to be a “conservative Christian” or “insecure about other people’s sexuality.” (more...)
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