The White Male Oppressor Speaks

Yours truly has found and joined a Facebook page that I can wholeheartedly support. That is why I am posting the mission statement from that page in hopes of more people learning the truth about the inhumane medical neglect and apparent fraud going on in the Missionaries of Charity.

If you are not familiar with this “charity” you are most certainly familiar with its founder Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced Agnes Gongsa Boyoku) also known as Mother Teresa. So without further ado the a statement from Hemley and the mission statement.

Mother Teresa was never interested in offering solutions for poverty; if all this “saint’s” adoring fans studied the facts a bit closer they would be horrified about the madness that took place while she was around AND continues today at the Missionaries of Charity-

The Missionaries of Charity
By Hemley Gonzalez:

I worked as a volunteer in one of Mother Teresa’s homes in Calcutta, India for a period of two months at the end of 2008. It was during this time that I was shocked to discover the horrific and negligent manner in which this charity operates and the direct contradiction of the public’s general understanding of their work.

After further investigation and research, I realized that all of the events I had witnessed amounted to nothing more than a systematic human rights violation and a financial scam of monumental and criminal proportions.

Workers washing needles under tap water only to be reused again. Medicine and other vital items being store for months on end, expiring and eventually still applied sporadically to patients. Volunteers with little or no training carrying out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of Tuberculosis, leprosy and other life threatening illnesses, while the workers of the charity patently refuse to accept and implement machinery and equipment that would safely automate processes and save lives.

It was Mother Teresa’s own admission during an interview that more than 23,000 people had died in the halls of one of the missions home; boasting at the number if you will and missing entirely the point of the enormous compilation of unnecessary deaths.

Not once in its sixty year history, have the Missionaries of Charity reported the money they’ve taken in donations, what percentage they use for administration and where the rest has been applied and how. Since its inception, defectors of the organization and other journalists have placed the figure upwards of one billion dollars and counting. The mission currently operates 450 plus homes and maintains an average of 4,000 workers.
If any other organization did this systematically for six decades, there would be arrests and criminal charges; so why the exception here?

Many followers of Mother Teresa and her charity have irrationally argued in her defense while completely ignoring the ACTUAL deaths caused by the organization which in it of itself is quite troubling. While I agree that poverty is ugly, grueling and heartbreaking and it won’t go away in two months or a year I have also seen how easy it is for many to swipe a credit card or send a check and in return spend hours claiming the good that’s done with it but in this case, it couldn’t be more inaccurate.

Mother Teresa herself had also repeatedly admitted that she was not a social worker, and her followers continue to assert the same. So under what motives do they tend to the poor you may ask? The mantra of the operation rests solely on the belief that suffering and poverty are ways of loving god, something that when explained to even people of faith makes no sense at all! In short, they are there to move people to their deaths rather than actually looking for ways to fix the problem that is poverty.

I have started this group and other projects to denounce the Missionaries of Charity and their work and bring worldwide attention to the acts committed by them on daily basis. I strongly believe that as humans we most help our fellow humans in need with 100% transparency and not in return of those we help having to agree with whatever spiritual path we may choose.

Continuing to air these facts about Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and organizations like hers bring attention to the fraud and manipulation that exists and helps point good people everywhere to other charities that work to empower men, women and children in need the world over.

Hemley Gonzalez

This page has a lot of good information and is updated regularly. And now the link to the Facebook Page “stopthemissionariesofcharity.com”

Until Next Time: COURAGE

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I would first like to give you a brief background on Mother Teresa the so called saint of Calcutta. Then I will discuss why I say  “so called saint”.  Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced Agnes Gongsa Boyoku) in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. At the age of eighteen she left  home  and joined the Sisters of Loreto, which is an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After training for a few months with a convent  in Dublin, she was sent to work in India. Agnes Bojaxhiu took her vows to be  a nun on May 24, 1931. In 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school she had taught at since 1931 and devoted herself to working with the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.  Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican on October 7 1950 to start her own order, “The Missionaries of Charity”, whose primary task was to love and care for those people that no one else would. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.

Some of the awards that Mother Teresa received were: The Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979), the Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.

What most people know about the Missionaries of Charity came from a documentary about her Order from 1969,  the church, and mainstream media that refused any ideas from critics wasn’t worth following. Now on to the unpleasant truth behind the squalid conditions that these poor people suffered in under the care of this Order. I will be discussing accounts from volunteers of the Missionaries of Charity as well as a former sister of the Order as well as a documentary film maker/reporter both of  whom had seen first hand what life was actually like in these aptly named “homes for the dying”.

First I would like to bring to you a  man named Donal MacIntyre who is an investigative journalist. He went undercover as a volunteer in her “flagship home” in Kolkata, India.  His description as to what he saw is distressing at best. Here is his account of what he saw in this home for disabled boys and girls. “I worked undercover for a week in Mother Teresa’s flagship home for disabled boys and girls to record Mother Teresa’s Legacy, a special report for Five News broadcast earlier this month. I winced at the rough handling by some of the full-time staff and Missionary sisters. I saw children with their mouths gagged open to be given medicine, their hands flaying in distress, visible testimony to the pain they were in. Tiny babies were bound with cloths at feeding time. Rough hands wrenched heads into position for feeding. Some of the children retched and coughed as rushed staff crammed food into their mouths. Boys and girls were abandoned on open toilets for up to 20 minutes at a time. Slumped, untended, some dribbling, some sleeping, they were a pathetic sight. Their treatment was an affront to their dignity, and dangerously unhygienic.” The first time I read this I was absolutely sickened at the thought of children no matter where they live being treated in such an inhumane condition. Now this account alone I would not just take at face value so I did some more digging and found out some other unfortunate tidbits of knowledge. Read full article here

The following excerpts are from a story in free inquiry magazine called “Mother Teresa’s House of Illusions” by Susan Shields a former sister in the Missionaries of Charity “As a Missionary of Charity, I was assigned to record donations and write the thank-you letters. The money arrived at a frantic rate. The mail carrier often delivered the letters in sacks. We wrote receipts for checks of $50,000 and more on a regular basis. Sometimes a donor would call up and ask if we had received his check, expecting us to remember it readily because it was so large. How could we say that we could not recall it because we had received so many that were even larger?” In that same article she describes an obvious hypocrisy “Our Constitution forbade us to beg for more than we needed, but, when it came to begging, the millions of dollars accumulating in the bank were treated as if they did not exist.” In another part Ms. Shields describes the horribly unsafe and unsanitary practice in Haiti of the sisters reusing hypodermic needles until they were blunt in order to keep the spirit of poverty and when some of the volunteers offered to go and get more needles the sisters refused.  At one point the Missionaries of Charity had around $50 million in the bank, and yet they refused to offer the people that needed real help anything but dull needles and horrible living conditions. This is absolutely unconscionable especially for those that purport to follow Christ’s teachings yet be apparently obsessed with the suffering of others with comments like “We see Christ in the broken body, and we touch him and that touch is comes from that deep faith that Christ cannot deceive“, to me that appears to say she needed the decrepit state and suffering of others for her to be closer to Christ. Read full article here

In conclusion I am sure some fundamentalists out there are going to say I am lying and that I just hate Catholics and want to discredit a great woman. This could not be farther from the truth. I had no opinion on Mother Teresa or the Missionaries of Charity other than what I heard from admirers and the news until I started looking into her and her order and read the first hand accounts of the conditions that these people lived in unnecessarily. Yet the blissfully uninformed seem to hold people like Agnes and others who walk around with undeserved adulation as society looks the other way when it comes to the atrocities that they commit. I want to make it very clear the history of the sisterhood does not necessarily reflect its current actions. If you find comfort, security or happiness in the memory and works of Mother Teresa and her order I am not out to change your mind or defame Catholicism in anyway but purely to inform people of the reality behind those they hold on high as examples to the rest of us.

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