Just been looking at a video of him and his attack on Mother Teresa. Saying she was beyond criticism in the media and he was going to change that.
He looked very pleased at saying that. Then he mentioned his book about her ‘Hell’s Angel’ and he paused for the reaction. And there were giggles. Then he mentioned his other book about called ‘The Missionary Position’. Once again a few giggles. He looked very pleased with himself again. Like a little boy.
I haven’t read much about the criticisms of her but my I think they would be unjust.
I suppose the worst one would be poor standard of medical care. But these criticisms were made of her at the beginning when she didn’t have any money for expensive drugs or treatments.. She literally started out to simply give the ‘Poorest of the Poor’ a place to die with dignity instead of on the streets. See they will have been from the ‘untouchable’ class or lowest caste. There was no ‘funding’ for these despised people inside India or out.
The dodgy people she got funding from. Robert Maxwell for one. There are photographs of him with her. But I believe she took the money and ran. Same with all the others I can’t be bothered to look up.
You know it’s the oldest trick in the book to try and disparage someone or tarnish their reputation to show a photograph of them with someone dodgy. Tarred with the same brush see.
The accusation of forced Baptisms or conversions. I heard her say many times that anyone would be admitted to their care no matter what religion or none.
Just don’t believe it.
Back to Christopher. He always looked very well fed to me. I don’t think he wouldn’t have faired well in stinking surroundings. He was always at literary gatherings. Once again his delicate nostrils far distant from the stench of the gutter
More charitably he was against the Iraq War. His brother Peter said of him he had an ‘active mind’. But a bit like Oscar Wilde there was that about him – he liked to shock and be a bit naughty for notoriety.
One last thing there are 4000 ‘Sisters of Charity’ homes I think around the world now. Nobody makes the criticism now of poor medical care. That’s because there is widespread funding from donations. She didn’t have that in the beginning. It takes time for a thing like this to fully establish itself.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic



