The Teresa of Calcutta

Nothing unified India more than their rather morbid reverence of the Albanian nun, the Teresa of Calcutta. As a child growing up in India, I found this submission unhealthy and quite strange. She was hailed as a saviour by both religious and seculars alike. This credulity was widespread and it wasn’t helped by the fact that the only opposition to her were fundamental Hindus. There was no rationale opposition to a lady whose credit has been nothing more than being there in a city of poor. My neighbouring compound was a catholic nunnery. Most of them taught in a Christian school and few of them were in the medical profession. I always wondered how Teresa’s sacrifices are better than the nuns I knew. In an era of no internet and government holding a fascist control over publication, it was impossible for me to get the true picture. I found something utterly strange in the uninhibited reverence of a nun whose accomplishment to me is quite unquestionable.

Years went by and I finally got the time and the channels to do more research. To say the least, I felt my childhood doubts and questions vindicated. She was indeed a fraud. Proselytising people in misery and growing the number of papal slaves, is the least of her immoral activities. She was a timid and fragile sounding tyrant. Her looks camouflaged the deep rooted anti-science and anti-social philosophies, the pillars of the papacy.

The below documentary called Hell’s angel beautifully explain this well-crafted deception. The institution is still thriving, decades after the death of Teresa. Still, nothing noteworthy is done for the ailing except showing them a catholic path of heaven. With the death of her main detractors like Mr.Christopher Hitchens, there is not much of an opposition to her growing legacy.

Finally, she has been canonised two decades after her death. There were few people who did oppose it but they were ghastly dismissed. The most interesting article I read was the one where the author felt that she was always a saint. In my own cynical way, I rather agree. She has done to the catholic institution more than what many popes did in their lifetime. In an age where the church was exposed with many sexual scandals, she was a lone saviour. So far there are no sexual allegations against her. She just associated herself with rich dictators to get the required funding for spreading the bronze age myths of the church. She was indeed a saint for the church, a real Hell’s angel.