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/sigh... what a surprise(sarcasm) (Original Post) uriel1972 Dec 2015 OP
*Sigh* indeed! Christopher Hitchens bvf Dec 2015 #1
Here: NastyRiffraff Dec 2015 #2
Thanks--exactly the quote I was trying to remember. bvf Dec 2015 #5
Reading the comments, it seems readers of the Guardian readers aren't big fans of her. progressoid Dec 2015 #3
This one might go a little easier than the other beatification. onager Dec 2015 #4
So a couple people who say she "cured" them are the miracles edhopper Dec 2015 #6
 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
1. *Sigh* indeed! Christopher Hitchens
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:22 AM
Dec 2015

had some choice words for her, as I recall. Too lazy to look them up right now. Maybe later...

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
2. Here:
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 01:03 PM
Dec 2015
&quot Mother Teresa) was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."--Christopher Hitchens


Hitchens also called Teresa “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud”
 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
5. Thanks--exactly the quote I was trying to remember.
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:26 PM
Dec 2015

I saw there's a thread in Religion on this with more Hitchens, too.

onager

(9,356 posts)
4. This one might go a little easier than the other beatification.
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 04:45 PM
Dec 2015

Pope Pius XII. A/k/a "Hitler's Pope."

Pope Frank says the process stalled because the Catholic Church "couldn't find a miracle."



Then they aren't looking very hard. I'll give you a miracle, Frank.

He spent many years, including part of his tenure as Pope, being blind, deaf and mute. That's the only possible explanation. Because even though he was Papal Nuncio to Germany when Hitler took over, and signed the first international recognition of the Nazi State...well, after 1945, he never HEARD of the Nazis. Or Hitler. Or the guy who created the fiction of the Vatican as a state - that really militant atheist Benito Mussolini.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/05/27/pope-francis-pius-xiis-beatification-has-stalled/

edhopper

(33,614 posts)
6. So a couple people who say she "cured" them are the miracles
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 09:39 PM
Dec 2015

because they thought of her at the time or something.
but she didn't cure a single poor soul who was in her care.

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