My Take: The Mother Teresa you don’t know

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4. No, Hitchens got her exactly right.

A pious fraud who warehoused the dying poor, only making sure they died Catholic.

A hypocrite who spent the bare minimum on the sick. But when MT herself got sick, her groupies made sure she got the absolute best in modern medical care.

Is this Hitchens speaking? No, this is Susan Shields, who spent 9 and a half years working for Mother Teresa until she finally got disgusted and quit:

The donations rolled in and were deposited in the bank, but they had no effect on our ascetic lives and very little effect on the lives of the poor we were trying to help...

Mother was very concerned that we preserve our spirit of poverty. Spending money would destroy that poverty. She seemed obsessed with using only the simplest of means for our work...

In Haiti, to keep the spirit of poverty, the sisters reused needles until they became blunt. Seeing the pain caused by the blunt needles, some of the volunteers offered to procure more needles, but the sisters refused.


http://arcticbeacon.com/articles/6-Jun-2007.html

So does your falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus rule apply here too? Or is that only for outspoken atheists?