A quick quiz: Note, the information herein comes from multiple
unimpeachable sources, I have simply collated and tried to hide the surprise to
the end.
Who was a professed friend of the brutal Hatian dictator ,
Jean-Claude Duvalier, visiting them
in person in 1981 and praised the Duvaliers and their regime as “friends” of
the poor, their testimony on Duvalier's behalf shown on state-owned television for
weeks? who also lauded the Nicaraguan Contras and brutal Albanian
Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha? Who was a beneficiary of convicted S &L fraudster Charles
Keating's efforts to cleanse his soul, having received $1.25 million in
donations , refusing to return any of it, even when it was pointed out that it
had been looted?
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, prompting many realists to note that, " Few people had the poor taste to ask
what (they) had ever done, or even
claimed to do, for the cause of peace”?
Any ideas?
Who campaigned in Ireland " “Let us promise Our Lady
who loves Ireland so much that we will never allow in this country a single
abortion. And no contraceptives, ” and also campaigned in Ireland to oppose the
successful 1995 referendum to legalize divorce in that predominantly Catholic
country ?
Who routinely squirreled away multi-millions in donations in
Swiss bank accounts and rebuffed all
efforts ever over 25 years to audit these mega-millions ?
The free clinics provided
care that was at best rudimentary and haphazard and at worst unsanitary and
dangerous, despite the enormous amounts of donations received. Multiple volunteers at these clinics, have testified to the inadequate care provided
to the dying. Despite routinely receiving millions of dollars in donations, the
clinics were kept barren and austere,
lacking all but the most rudimentary and haphazard care.
Volunteers such as
Briton Mary Loudon, and Western doctors such as Robin Fox of the Lancet, wrote with shock of
what they found. No tests were performed
to determine the patients’ ailments. No modern medical equipment was available.
Even people dying of cancer, suffering terrible agony, were given no
painkillers other than aspirin. Needles were simply rinsed and reused,
without proper sterilization. No one was ever sent to the hospital,
even people in clear need of emergency surgery or other treatment.
Again, it is important
to note that these conditions were not the unavoidable result of triage. Their organization routinely received
multimillion-dollar donations which were squirreled away in bank accounts,
while volunteers were told to beg donors for more money and plead extreme
poverty and desperate need. The huge amount of money received could easily have built half a dozen
fully equipped modern hospitals and clinics, but was never used for that
purpose. No, this negligent and rudimentary care was deliberate – about which, see
the next point. However, despite their praise for poverty, our subject hypocritically sought out the most advanced care
possible in the Western world when personally
in need of it.
Got an idea yet?
Despite the widespread perception that the object was to relieve the suffering of the poor, the
truth was anything but, they actually considered suffering to be
beneficial. This is why clinics were so
rudimentary – not so that sick people could be cured, but so they could get
closer to God through their suffering. As one critic said, “(they) were
thoroughly saturated with a primitive fundamentalist religious worldview that
sees pain, hardship, and suffering as ennobling experiences and a beautiful
expression of affiliation with Jesus Christ and his ordeal on the cross.”
But, of course, suffering like Christ was of no benefit if
the sufferer did not actually accept Christ. To this end, clinics
were run as conversion factories. Ex-volunteers
have testified that they followers were
taught to secretly baptize the dying – people who could not resist, or were not
aware of what was happening to them – without their consent. As ex-volunteer
Susan Shields wrote, “Material aid was a means of reaching their souls, …
Secrecy was important so that it would not come to be known that (their)
helpers were baptizing Hindus and Muslims”.
By now many readers have already tumbled to the fact that
the subject is one of the great frauds of the 20th century, Mother Teresa.
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