But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.
Dr. Joseph Stowell remarks on this event in his book "The Trouble With Jesus". He writes that after "Mother" Teresa's speech, the crowd rose to its feet in applause with the exception of the Clintons and Gores who sat in silence throughout the thunderous ovation.
While I greatly respect "Mother" Teresa's stance on the sanctity of life for unborn babies, she was not a Christian. (See: Does being a pro-life Catholic make you a Christian? - One Way Jesus.) "Mother" Teresa was a Roman Catholic universalist (see below}.
God is whoever (or whatever).
"Mother" Teresa, and those who work with her, never try to convert to Christ the dying people for whom they care. Instead, "Mother" Teresa declares: "If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept." (from Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work , by Desmond Doig, p. 156, as quoted by Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist , p. 149).
God is missing.
The following is excerpted from the Time Magazine article "Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith":
A new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint to a life known mostly through its works. The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church),reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever — or, as the book's compiler and editor, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, writes, "neither in her heart or in the eucharist."
(Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655720,00.html#ixzz1XQkE82M4)
Call in an exorcist!
The following was copied from CNN.com - Archbishop: Mother Teresa underwent exorcism September 7, 2001:
KOLKATA, India (CNN) -- Senior church officials in Kolkata, previously called Calcutta, India, acknowledge Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the later years of life.
The exorcism took place in a hospital where she had gone for cardiac problems, said Archbishop of Calcutta Henry D'Souza. The archbishop himself had been hospitalized at the same facility and shared the same doctor as Mother Teresa.
He said he noticed that while Mother Teresa was calm during the day, at night she appeared "extremely agitated." D'Souza said Mother Teresa would pull off wires and other monitoring equipment stuck to her body.
He said that is when he believed Mother Teresa "might be under the attack of the evil one." He offered to arrange for an exorcism for the elderly nun. She agreed.
"So I said let's do the prayer of exorcism over her. So I called one of the priests who was a holy man in Calcutta," D'Souza said. "I told him, 'Please say the prayer of exorcism over Mother Teresa.' And he got a shock and said, 'Shall I pray and should I drive out the devil if it's there?'"
"I said, 'Yes, you do.' But he says, 'What will the devil do to me?' I said to him, 'You command the devil to go if he's there. In the name of the church, as archbishop, I command you to go and do it.'"
After the exorcism was over, the archbishop said Mother Teresa "slept like a baby."
(Source: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/04/mother.theresa.exorcism/)
Related news:
BEATIFICATION HOMILY: MOTHER TERESA - Pope John Paul II (EWTN) (Catholic website: for information purposes only)
French study claims Mother Teresa wasn’t so saintly (Washington Times)
Relics of the "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta" displayed at the National Shrine in Washington, D.C., reports the Catholic Standard (Catholic website: for information purposes only)