I'm not Catholic. I don't adhere to many Catholic apologetics (doctrines), but I do understand how sensationalist headlines can take down the good with the bad. I do not know much about Mother Teresa. I also don't believe that the Catholic Church "ordains" saints or appoints them. Saints are people who accept Christ and serve the Lord. Period.
We really do have to examine the media and how they ruined truth. They did it just like the person with this post. For example, the article says that certain people within the organization were arrested. Arrested does not mean guilty--at least in America--not yet anyway. Yes, it means they are guilty in a court of public opinion.
Do you not realize that this has how MSM gained its traction. They made us all into courts of opinion. They swayed us into believing what they wanted by giving us their opinion and backing it up with sensationalism.
Mother Teresa could have been as close to human flawlessness as she could be. She could have been the devil incarnate. These woman could have been selling children ... or someone who has an argument or an anger with the church or with God may have made up stories.
The articles are not journalism. They didn't seek truth. They fed what they needed to feed you to gain your biased opinion.
So, if the MSM is really ever truly taken down, if we cannot teach ourselves what true journalism is, they are going to gain a very fast foothold into the door of misinformation again.
For the love of the Lord, read about the correct way to write a news article. It doesn't begin with copying someone else's work to enforce your opinion. It means you dig into the information to find the truth and present it whether or not it fits the narrative you'd like it to fit.
Lou Dobbs was fired from Fox News. He and Bartiroma are' were their last remaining journalist. When Maria goes, Fox is completely gone. She may not even be enough to hold them afloat. Look at why Lou was good at what he did. Look at why Martha McCallum became dirty as soon as she announced Arizona had called the race for Biden. Look at smug Bret Beir and at Cavuto, even at Carlson and Hannity. There is no journalism left. These are smug talking heads. Ingrham, whom I did have faith in, lost me as soon as she acquiesced to the stolen election.
Fox's whole reason for the switch was to sway public opinion.
Because that is all modern journalism has become.
All very important. If we want to have real journalism, we can't just allow outlets that feed confirmation bias. "People you trust" could mean anyone. Critical thought is what is needed at all times. Maybe Mother Teresa was someone to trust, maybe not. What are the facts? Who was this woman that was selling a child? It's not as if good organizations don't ever hire a crazy person. Much more is needed to show this is an institutional practice or problem.
I’m surprised how blinded and asleep you all are here.
Christopher Hitchens completely exposed mother Teresa.
Many people here didn’t listen to Hitchens because he is an athiest.
But Hitchens was always an honest reporter.
I’m so confused how this is coming as a shock to people on this forum.
Some pedophiles are programmed from birth to get their sexual thrills from hurting and humiliating the most defenseless of victims even if they were once victims themselves.Humans subjected to sexual abuse as children have a choice to overcome. Their circumstances are not an excuse to further the abuse.
Some humans are born without a conscious. They seek power over others via manipulation. They are greedy and have no empathy. They are psychopaths who rise to positions of authority over others. Pedophilia is one of their dark "perks".
A saint is a pretty simple concept. It’s someone who is in heaven with Christ.
The declaring of Saints is a process where the Church tries to decide if someone is in fact a Saint. The purpose for doing so is to give people role models to live by. Instead of looking up to celebrities we have all of these different examples of faithful people.
So Christ determines who is in heaven but his Church can let people on earth know if someone made it there and help tell their story. One of the earlier and simple ways is if someone was killed for their faith in Christ. One of the others is they perform a miracle who is obviously harder to prove.
And Sainthood can be removed by the Church if it thinks a mistake was made or new evidence comes out. Again this doesn’t affect the judgement Christ has made. That person could still be in heaven but the Church has just declared we aren’t sure.
Oh, I understand. I live with two Catholics and I work for a Catholic company. I am not Catholic. I just don't believe that any man (or church) can name someone a saint. I expressed that I do not believe with all Catholic apologetics. I do this in the same what the Catholics in my household do not subscribe to my faith's apologetics. We come together on this one truth, and it is all that concerns me when I speak to a Christian: Christ is the only Way by which we can get to heaven. It is by His death, burial, and resurrection that we gain entrance via our repentance of sins. I don't care if a Christian believes they will go to heaven, believes they have to somehow get prayed into heaven after salvation, or that they can lose their salvation. I don't argue apologetics. My point was that we are all flawed people. Gasp. Even Teresa. She wasn't perfect. But the true point was that the article wants us to believe that St. Teresa herself was responsible for something bad that happened in an organization she started and even that the whole organization is bad because they want us to take at face value the assumption that someone did something wrong: thus a court of opinion without applying facts.
Not arguing politics. I love Catholics. I've come to understand how people treat their faith because they know little about it. All I care about is what we have in common. You can believe Peter was the first Pope even if I do not. I'm not arguing about it. Peter was awesome. We can both agree on that.
I believe the big problem for Protestantism is the 1500 year gap from the time of Christ to Martin Luther. Matin Luther is essentially saying Christians got it all wrong for 1500 years when he threw out the priesthood, apostolic succession, the sacraments, the mass, and the understanding of the special role of the blessed Virgin Mary flowing out of the Old Testament. All these beliefs had deep Christian roots going back to the earliest days of the apostles through the Middle Ages. Sure there was and is corruption among the hierarchy that needs to be rooted out, but Martin Luther seriously modified what peoples ancestors had believed going back centuries, without, in my opinion, giving sufficient justification. Protestantism subsequently broke Christian unity and weakened Europe by shattering religion into hundreds of different competing sects and upsetting the delicate balance between church and state.
The Virgin Mary, as practiced by the Catholic Church, may have had pagan roots that weren't so holy.
I think they merged the two beliefs.
Maybe Martin Luther...just a guess, not a declaration...maybe he didn't want to discuss the more unsavory aspects.
Not knocking on Catholics - there is so much beauty in the Catholic Church that inspires me. And many saints whose biographies I read for motivation to holiness.
Disconnect from all the propaganda against orthodoxy.
It is the one true church - and the only one who hasn’t budged an inch and has never been compromised since early Christianity.
The Christian orthodox religion predates the Catholics of today. And is the original “Catholic Church” that refused the pope - and sought to maintain autocephaly (google that).
The original Greek Orthodox Church even reads the Bible in its original koine Greek form.
It’s absolutely amazing how western Christian profiteers hid the truth from the west for so long - and changed the Bible and the faith year from year, simply because too many religious Americans and even priests never bothered to learn Greek.
It confounds me how an engineer is trained in mathematics, a lawyer in law... a doctor in medicine... and a priest - who has no other job other than to understand 2 books... can’t learn Greek...
And this while also covertly programming people, as to exactly who and what they 'should' be loving/approving/following vs. hating/lynching/cancelling.
Besides infiltration and true corruption, distorting truth via the propagation of slanderous narratives is a key marxist propaganda/conditioning tactic to undermine people's trust in every single 'rival' sector of society - family, government, religion, etc.
I'm not Catholic. I don't adhere to many Catholic apologetics (doctrines), but I do understand how sensationalist headlines can take down the good with the bad. I do not know much about Mother Teresa. I also don't believe that the Catholic Church "ordains" saints or appoints them. Saints are people who accept Christ and serve the Lord. Period. We really do have to examine the media and how they ruined truth. They did it just like the person with this post. For example, the article says that certain people within the organization were arrested. Arrested does not mean guilty--at least in America--not yet anyway. Yes, it means they are guilty in a court of public opinion. Do you not realize that this has how MSM gained its traction. They made us all into courts of opinion. They swayed us into believing what they wanted by giving us their opinion and backing it up with sensationalism. Mother Teresa could have been as close to human flawlessness as she could be. She could have been the devil incarnate. These woman could have been selling children ... or someone who has an argument or an anger with the church or with God may have made up stories. The articles are not journalism. They didn't seek truth. They fed what they needed to feed you to gain your biased opinion. So, if the MSM is really ever truly taken down, if we cannot teach ourselves what true journalism is, they are going to gain a very fast foothold into the door of misinformation again. For the love of the Lord, read about the correct way to write a news article. It doesn't begin with copying someone else's work to enforce your opinion. It means you dig into the information to find the truth and present it whether or not it fits the narrative you'd like it to fit. Lou Dobbs was fired from Fox News. He and Bartiroma are' were their last remaining journalist. When Maria goes, Fox is completely gone. She may not even be enough to hold them afloat. Look at why Lou was good at what he did. Look at why Martha McCallum became dirty as soon as she announced Arizona had called the race for Biden. Look at smug Bret Beir and at Cavuto, even at Carlson and Hannity. There is no journalism left. These are smug talking heads. Ingrham, whom I did have faith in, lost me as soon as she acquiesced to the stolen election. Fox's whole reason for the switch was to sway public opinion. Because that is all modern journalism has become.
All very important. If we want to have real journalism, we can't just allow outlets that feed confirmation bias. "People you trust" could mean anyone. Critical thought is what is needed at all times. Maybe Mother Teresa was someone to trust, maybe not. What are the facts? Who was this woman that was selling a child? It's not as if good organizations don't ever hire a crazy person. Much more is needed to show this is an institutional practice or problem.
I’m surprised how blinded and asleep you all are here. Christopher Hitchens completely exposed mother Teresa. Many people here didn’t listen to Hitchens because he is an athiest. But Hitchens was always an honest reporter. I’m so confused how this is coming as a shock to people on this forum.
mother Teresa - hells angel - Hitchens
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Gave all the info for an easy search...
But here...
Mother teresa - hells angel...
Psychopaths wearing a mask of sanity.
Some pedophiles are programmed from birth to get their sexual thrills from hurting and humiliating the most defenseless of victims even if they were once victims themselves.Humans subjected to sexual abuse as children have a choice to overcome. Their circumstances are not an excuse to further the abuse.
Some humans are born without a conscious. They seek power over others via manipulation. They are greedy and have no empathy. They are psychopaths who rise to positions of authority over others. Pedophilia is one of their dark "perks".
I would add ESPECIALLY if they were once victims themselves.
Some of them may be trying to heal themselves in the only way they know how: by repeating the trauma.
Yes, it's sick.
It's disgusting.
But if we are going to heal the world, we need to attempt to look at the reasons a person might engage in degenerate behavior.
Can these individuals be healed?
I don't know. Maybe some can.
But it will probably start with some kind of exorcism or depossession to keep the demons from obstructing the human from healing.
Amen to that. Very hard to deprogram. I think there may be hyper dimensional demonic influences that attach themselves to broken souls.
People disagree with strawman Catholicism.
A saint is a pretty simple concept. It’s someone who is in heaven with Christ.
The declaring of Saints is a process where the Church tries to decide if someone is in fact a Saint. The purpose for doing so is to give people role models to live by. Instead of looking up to celebrities we have all of these different examples of faithful people.
So Christ determines who is in heaven but his Church can let people on earth know if someone made it there and help tell their story. One of the earlier and simple ways is if someone was killed for their faith in Christ. One of the others is they perform a miracle who is obviously harder to prove.
And Sainthood can be removed by the Church if it thinks a mistake was made or new evidence comes out. Again this doesn’t affect the judgement Christ has made. That person could still be in heaven but the Church has just declared we aren’t sure.
Understand?
Oh, I understand. I live with two Catholics and I work for a Catholic company. I am not Catholic. I just don't believe that any man (or church) can name someone a saint. I expressed that I do not believe with all Catholic apologetics. I do this in the same what the Catholics in my household do not subscribe to my faith's apologetics. We come together on this one truth, and it is all that concerns me when I speak to a Christian: Christ is the only Way by which we can get to heaven. It is by His death, burial, and resurrection that we gain entrance via our repentance of sins. I don't care if a Christian believes they will go to heaven, believes they have to somehow get prayed into heaven after salvation, or that they can lose their salvation. I don't argue apologetics. My point was that we are all flawed people. Gasp. Even Teresa. She wasn't perfect. But the true point was that the article wants us to believe that St. Teresa herself was responsible for something bad that happened in an organization she started and even that the whole organization is bad because they want us to take at face value the assumption that someone did something wrong: thus a court of opinion without applying facts. Not arguing politics. I love Catholics. I've come to understand how people treat their faith because they know little about it. All I care about is what we have in common. You can believe Peter was the first Pope even if I do not. I'm not arguing about it. Peter was awesome. We can both agree on that.
I believe the big problem for Protestantism is the 1500 year gap from the time of Christ to Martin Luther. Matin Luther is essentially saying Christians got it all wrong for 1500 years when he threw out the priesthood, apostolic succession, the sacraments, the mass, and the understanding of the special role of the blessed Virgin Mary flowing out of the Old Testament. All these beliefs had deep Christian roots going back to the earliest days of the apostles through the Middle Ages. Sure there was and is corruption among the hierarchy that needs to be rooted out, but Martin Luther seriously modified what peoples ancestors had believed going back centuries, without, in my opinion, giving sufficient justification. Protestantism subsequently broke Christian unity and weakened Europe by shattering religion into hundreds of different competing sects and upsetting the delicate balance between church and state.
The Virgin Mary, as practiced by the Catholic Church, may have had pagan roots that weren't so holy.
I think they merged the two beliefs.
Maybe Martin Luther...just a guess, not a declaration...maybe he didn't want to discuss the more unsavory aspects.
Not knocking on Catholics - there is so much beauty in the Catholic Church that inspires me. And many saints whose biographies I read for motivation to holiness.
Also not knocking on pagans.
Just some of the degenerate types.
I won't go into it more here.
Christian orthodoxy solves all your problems.
Disconnect from all the propaganda against orthodoxy.
It is the one true church - and the only one who hasn’t budged an inch and has never been compromised since early Christianity.
The Christian orthodox religion predates the Catholics of today. And is the original “Catholic Church” that refused the pope - and sought to maintain autocephaly (google that).
The original Greek Orthodox Church even reads the Bible in its original koine Greek form.
It’s absolutely amazing how western Christian profiteers hid the truth from the west for so long - and changed the Bible and the faith year from year, simply because too many religious Americans and even priests never bothered to learn Greek.
It confounds me how an engineer is trained in mathematics, a lawyer in law... a doctor in medicine... and a priest - who has no other job other than to understand 2 books... can’t learn Greek...
Beautiful.
And this while also covertly programming people, as to exactly who and what they 'should' be loving/approving/following vs. hating/lynching/cancelling.
Besides infiltration and true corruption, distorting truth via the propagation of slanderous narratives is a key marxist propaganda/conditioning tactic to undermine people's trust in every single 'rival' sector of society - family, government, religion, etc.
Have a 17th like.