&quot Mother Teresa) was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."--Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens also called Teresa “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud”

bvf

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5. Thanks--exactly the quote I was trying to remember.

Reply to NastyRiffraff (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:26 PM

Dec 2015

I saw there's a thread in Religion on this with more Hitchens, too.

progressoid

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3. Reading the comments, it seems readers of the Guardian readers aren't big fans of her.

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Fri Dec 18, 2015, 12:39 PM

Dec 2015

onager

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4. This one might go a little easier than the other beatification.

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 03:45 PM

Dec 2015

Pope Pius XII. A/k/a "Hitler's Pope."

Pope Frank says the process stalled because the Catholic Church "couldn't find a miracle."

Then they aren't looking very hard. I'll give you a miracle, Frank.

He spent many years, including part of his tenure as Pope, being blind, deaf and mute. That's the only possible explanation. Because even though he was Papal Nuncio to Germany when Hitler took over, and signed the first international recognition of the Nazi State...well, after 1945, he never HEARD of the Nazis. Or Hitler. Or the guy who created the fiction of the Vatican as a state - that really militant atheist Benito Mussolini.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/05/27/pope-francis-pius-xiis-beatification-has-stalled/

edhopper

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6. So a couple people who say she "cured" them are the miracles

Reply to uriel1972 (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:39 PM

Dec 2015

because they thought of her at the time or something.
but she didn't cure a single poor soul who was in her care.

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