tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12288158352721314422024-03-18T20:58:14.781-07:00STOP The Missionaries of CharityHolding Mother Teresa's charity accountable for their monumental medical negligence and financial fraud. More information at: https://www.facebook.com/missionariesofcharity Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-70428153649374395872010-06-01T07:34:00.000-07:002013-08-01T07:34:40.117-07:00The Mystery of Mother Teresa And Sainthood - Investigation by: Prabir Gosh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For several years Prabir Ghosh, general secretary of the Indian Rationalist and Scientific Thinking Association, has challenged Hindu "godmen" and exposed their miracles as what he describes as cheap hypnotic tricks better performed by magicians. Now he is challenging the claim of the Missionaries of charity, who say a photograph of their founder, Mother Teresa, when placed over the stomach of 30-year-old Monica Besra, cured her of a tumour.</div>
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-55542484496666044642010-05-01T07:19:00.000-07:002013-08-01T07:20:09.601-07:00Deposition submitted by Aroup Chatterjee before the committee for beatification/canonization of Mother Teresa: "Mother of All Myths"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a lay person not versed in ecclesiastical procedures, I am not
eminently suited to make a formal or technical deposition before the
Committee. However, I have had a keen interest in Mother Teresa for the
last few years and have researched her operations, perhaps more
thoroughly than anyone else in the world. And, as somebody born, brought
up and educated in Calcutta, I feel I am in a unique situation to offer
evidence to the Committee. The Committee may summon me at any time to
appear personally before it to offer evidence. I also put my audio
visual evidence at the disposal of the Committee should it want to
consult them.</span></div>
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the years I have been dismayed at the discrepancy between Mother
Teresa’s words and her deeds, and here I present some of them. Mother
Teresa had said many thousands of times in her life that she “pick[ed]
up” people from the streets of Calcutta. She expounded on it at length
in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Her order did (and does) not “pick
up” destitutes from Calcutta’s streets. They do not provide an
ambulance service for the city’s poorest of the poor. If one rings the
Kalighat home for the dying destitute, one is told curtly to ring 102
(the Calcutta Corporation ambulance line) so that a Corporation vehicle
would bring the destitute to Kalighat.</span></div>
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believe that Mother Teresa had deliberately misled the world in her
assertions about “picking up” destitutes from the streets of Calcutta in
order to bolster her own image and that of her faith. Her failure to
provide vehicles (whilst continually claiming to do so) is even more
significant because she had been donated a number of ambulance vehicles.
These are used mainly (though not solely) as vans to ferry nuns, often
to and from places of prayer. I believe that this constitutes an abuse
of other people’s trust in her.</span></div>
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Teresa is on record in various publications (written by her friends and
followers) as having said that her order fed 4000, 5000, 7000 or 9000
people in Calcutta everyday (the figures are not chronologically
incremental). I do not know what she meant by feeding that number, but
the fact remains that her soup kitchens (numbering between two and
three) in Calcutta did (does) not feed more than 300 people daily (a
generous over- estimate). The Committee should also take into account
the “food cards” that poor people must possess to obtain ration in at
least one soup kitchen. The Committee should note that such cards are
not easy to come by for the poor, and that virtually all Christians in a
particular slum have food cards, when hardly any of the poor from the
other religions have them. This policy gives the lie to Mother Teresa’s
assertions that she treated the poor from all faiths equally. On the
issue of bias toward Catholicism, I would also like to tell the
Committee that worship inside Mother Teresa’s homes is solely Catholic,
and non-Catholic worship is not at all permitted therein. This practice
should be judged in the context of a minute proportion of the residents
in her homes in Calcutta being of the Catholic faith. I would like to
draw the Committee’s attention to Mother Teresa’s frequent
pronouncement: “I help a Hindu to become a better Hindu, a Muslim to
become a better Muslim…..” etc. The practice of denying poor people
under her care the right to worship their own god(s) can be judged as
harsh and demeaning.</span></div>
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Teresa once said, “If there are poor on the moon, we will go there.”
She said many times that she never refused anybody who needed help. In
reality however, her order operated strict exclusion criteria in their
selection of who to help and who not to. Mother Teresa’s order did
(does) not help anybody, no matter how poor or helpless, who had a
family member of any kind — what they term a “family case”. (That is one
practice he doesn’t like which I agree with. The family should take
care of their own first. Too bad we don’t do that here with welfare)</span></div>
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of Mother Teresa’s slogans had been ,”Bring me that unwanted child.” In
her Nobel Prize speech she said, “Let us bring the child back. …….What
have we done for the child? ………..Have we really made the children
wanted?” If the Committee examines what Mother Teresa had done for
street children (in Calcutta), it may find that she fell short of
optimal standard. Despite her assertions, she did not operate an “open
door” policy at her homes for the poor, including for poor children. A
very poor and very ill child would not be offered help unless the
parents signed (or thumb-printed) a form of renunciation signing over
the rights of the child to her organisation. I have video evidence of
such a case happening on the doorstep of Mother Teresa’s orphanage.(Is
that charity? “Sign over your child to us or we let them starve!!!”?)</span></div>
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Committee may also want to interview street children from around Mother
House who were repeatedly reported to the police by Mother Teresa’s
nuns for “pestering” foreigners who came to visit the “living saint”. I
have video interviews with such children, which the Committee may like
to consult.</span></div>
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her famous letter written in 1978 to the then Indian Prime Minister
Morarji Desai in protest against the curbing of Christian missionary
activities, Mother Teresa mentioned that she operated “102 centres” of
natural family in Calcutta. The Committee should heed that such centres
do not exist. The Committee should also note that in her Nobel Prize
speech Mother Teresa had said that in 6 years in Calcutta there were
“61,273 babies less” born because of her organisation’s natural family
planning activities. There is no basis whatever for this statistic, and
it was disingenuous of Mother Teresa to mention it in her Nobel Prize
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
the April 1996 issue of the US magazine Ladies Home Journal, Mother
Teresa said that she wanted to die like the poor in her home for the
dying destitute in Kalighat. This is a very outrageous statement indeed.
By then she had had numerous in-patient medical treatments in some of
the most expensive clinics around the world. This includes the Scripps
Clinic in La Jolla, California and the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. She
also had numerous treatments at Calcutta’s Woodlands and Belle Vue
Clinics, which are outside the reach of 99% of India’s population. She
also received (on numerous occasions) sophisticated and expensive
cardiac treatments at Calcutta’s Birla Heart Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
Mother Teresa died, she was surrounded in her bedroom by sophisticated
and expensive cardiac equipment, which had been specially fitted for
her. Such privilege is usually granted to kings, presidents and
dictators. Whether such exclusive facilities befit a future Saint is for
the Committee to decide, but I would ask it to take note of the wide
discrepancy between Mother Teresa’s deeds and her pronouncements. In
1984 Mother Teresa (publicly) declined the offer of cataract surgery
from the St Francis Medical Centre in Pittsburgh, USA, telling the media
that she could not possibly accept the £5000 treatment; but the very
next year she had the same surgery (which cost even more) in St
Vincent’s Hospital , New York.</span></div>
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think Mother Teresa (or anybody else) should receive the best possible
medical treatment, but she utterly failed giving her residents (at least
in Calcutta) the minimum dignity and treatment — despite her vast
resources. The residents at Kalighat were denied beds — they were forced
to lie on hammocks, known by her order as “pallets”. They were not
allowed to get up from their pallets and stretch themselves. They are
denied visits from friends and relatives — indeed they would not be
admitted in the first place if they had any relatives. They are forced
to defecate and urinate communally. They are given only the simplest
possible treatments, such as simple painkillers for the intractable pain
of terminally ill residents. Gloves and more importantly, needles are
routinely re-used when deadly diseases are rife within this population.
It has to be borne in mind that the home for the dying in Calcutta is a
very small operation, catering to less than 100 people — is it not
legitimate to expect a minimum decent standard for these few people?
What does the Committee think?</span></div>
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for adequate and simple food, the regime in the home is very harsh
indeed — some would call it dehumanising; apart from the above points
mentioned, I would like to draw attention of the Committee to the
compulsory shaving of the heads of residents, including of female ones.
The Committee should take cognisance of the particular importance Indian
women (however poor or destitute) attach to long hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One
could perhaps overlook the medical facilities at Kalighat (although the
Committee should not perhaps ignore such dismal standards from a woman
with such resources) but where Mother Teresa failed was in providing
minimum “Love” and dignity for her residents, despite her numerous
claims that she did so. Mother Teresa’s motto had been “You did it to
me”, implying the suffering of Jesus; she said many times how
“beautiful” suffering and pain were. However she had one standard for
herself and another one for her residents. She herself had never
declined painkillers or anaesthetics.</span></div>
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Teresa, although protesting to live a life of utter humility and
suffering, frequently travelled the world in the luxury class of
aeroplanes, which is outside of the reach of all but the super wealthy.
Granted she did not pay for her travels (the airlines usually did), but I
believe her travels were a waste of resources, undertaken as they were
mostly for religious purposes. The majority of her journeys — including
the last foreign travel of her life that began in May 1997 — were to
oversee the vow taking of her nuns. She would also travel frequently to
the Vatican to meet up with the pope — indeed on most of her
international travels she would break journey at the Vatican, sometimes
twice — onward and return. Can the Committee justify such frequent and
expensive travels for reasons of religion by a woman who always claimed
that she was utterly devoted to the cause of the poor? Occasionally when
on board the first class section of an aeroplane, Mother Teresa would
ask for food to be given her so that she could take them to the poor.
This would impress those around her and would imply that she never did
anything that would detract from the cause of the poor — thereby she
would manage to camouflage the real purpose of her luxurious travels
which were unnecessary, at least for the interests of the poor. I would
urge the Committee to take into account Mother Teresa’s affectations
which were adopted (perhaps unwittingly) to cause deception and bolster
image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although
always protesting that she knew nothing about politics, Mother Teresa
voted in elections in India, as acknowledged by the Catholic author
Eileen Egan in one of Mother Teresa’s official biographies Such A Vision
of the Street. She also made sure that her nuns all voted. Here again,
we are getting a discord between words and deeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
the matter of politics, the most serious issue that can raised about
Mother Teresa’s actions was over her support of the State of Emergency
in India (1975 – 77). This was a time when democratic rights were
suspended in India and thousands of activists (both social and
political) were detained without trial. Other crimes, much more heinous,
were committed by the erstwhile government. The Committee should take
particular note of the forced sterilisation programmes (of poor men)
that were undertaken during this period. And yet, Mother Teresa issued
the State of Emergency a certificate of approval (acknowledged in the
above official biography) to help her friend the then Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. The Committee should decide if such action befits a
potential Saint. The Committee should particularly consider the way
Mother Teresa intervened in politics in this instance and compare it
with her (political) intervention during the passage of the Freedom of
Religion Bill in the Indian parliament in 1978. In the first instance
when human rights were threatened, she aided and abetted the powers that
were threatening them; in the second instance when Catholic rights were
threatened she made a strident protest. One could not have criticised
her if she had remained silent on both occasions.</span></div>
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Committee should also take into account Mother Teresa’s wooing of the
media, which was often selective. There are a lot of media persons
(primarily in India) who may testify to that effect. I have interviews
with such people which the Committee may like to consult. I am aware
that the help of the media is essential in the running of an
international organisation such as the Missionaries of Charity and I
certainly do not think it was unreasonable of Mother Teresa to enlist
such help, but she always publicly maintained that she detested
publicity.</span></div>
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word “saint” in the broad sense implies a person who is uniquely kind
and charitable; somebody above meanness and pettiness, somebody who does
not publicise their own deeds and achievements, at least does not
exaggerate them. Mother Teresa was a kind and charitable person, but
whether she was an exceptional in this regard is a matter for the
Committee to decide. I strongly urge the Committee to not simply be
guided by what she said, but look beyond that. She was an exceptional
Catholic — indeed much (if not most) of the resources of her
organisation was spent on religious activities, such as in the training
of nuns, novices, Brothers and priests, and in the upkeep of
establishments which are exclusively nunneries and Brothers’ houses.
When Mother Teresa told journalists (as she did very often during her
life) how many establishments she ran around the world, she never made
it clear that a large number of these housed nuns and Brothers and were
not homes for the poor.</span></div>
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this context, Mother Teresa’s fund raising from people of dubious
reputation needs to be mentioned. To give an example, in 1991 she
received a very large sum of money from Charles Keating, who had stolen
most or all of it from the American public, many of them people of
modest means. After Keating’s arrest, Mother Teresa steadfastly refused
to even acknowledge requests from the authorities to return the money.
Did she think that she was above earthly laws? If the money had been
returned, some of Keating’s poor investors who had been deceived could
have been repaid. Mother Teresa’s logic was that she was using rich
people’s ill-gotten money to help the poor. Such logic is perverse, not
only because she was knowingly handling stolen money, but also because
much of that money was being spent not on the poor but for the nurturing
of her faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
the Committee wants to confer sainthood on Mother Teresa for being an
exceptional Catholic, then no doubt such honour is deserved. If on the
other hand, sainthood is something the Committee would confer on
somebody who is also more than ordinarily honest, “humble”, dedicated to
the poor, free of falsehoods and above all a person of unique
integrity, then in my opinion Mother Teresa falls short of a being a
shining example.</span></div>
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I would ask the Committee whether it would do justice to the memory and
spirit of Mother Teresa — who had such visceral opposition to abortion
in any circumstance — to be called “Saint Teresa of Calcutta”, for
Calcutta is one of the world’s most pro abortion cities, where hundreds
of institutions (one of them not that many yards from Mother House)
offer abortion (virtually) on demand</span></div>
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investigation at one of the order’s homes in Kolkata by an undercover
investigator, who was working there as a volunteer, uncovers more
troubling details. He filmed children being fed while their hands bound
with what appeared to be strips of cloth. When the undercover worker
returned to the home at night, he found children bound to their cots
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Disabled Children Tied,Tethered To Cots, Finds Undercover Investigator<br />
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<strong>Kolkata, jul 31:</strong> An undercover investigation has
revealed poor conditions endured by children in a Kolkata care home run
by Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa.<br />
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Around 50 disabled children, aged six months to 12 years, in the home
have their hands bound during meal times and are tethered to their cots
at night.<br />
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Martin Gallagher, a former operations director of MENCAP, said last week
that it was unacceptable for the children to be tied up. “It’s a breach
of their human rights,” he said.<br />
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Since Mother Teresa’s death in 1997, her charitable order has continued
with her work. It has more than 700 centres in 133 countries. Even when
Mother Teresa was alive, the standards at some of her homes were
criticised. Some workers complained of dirty conditions and claimed
children suffered neglect.<br />
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A new investigation at one of the order’s homes in Kolkata, called Daya
Dan, has raised fresh concerns. An undercover investigator, who was
working there as a volunteer, filmed children being fed while their
hands bound with what appeared to be strips of cloth.<br />
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When the undercover worker returned to the home at night, he found
children bound to their cots with similar strips, which prevented them
from moving more than 2 feet.<br />
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He also filmed children being left unattended in the toilet, at times
for up to 20 minutes. Staff seemed to be poorly trained in dealing with
disabled children.<br />
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When questioned about why the children were tied to their beds, a nun in
the order said: “It’s a terrible thing to do, but there might be a
reason. I’ve not been to that home and not heard anything about that at
all.”<br />
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Donal MacIntyre, who conducted the investigation for Five News, said he was shocked by what he had found.<br />
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“There are strategies for looking after disabled children that minimise
stressful situations,” he said, “but, as a result of poor training and
lack of resources, staff are resorting to shocking practices.<br />
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“Unless the Missionaries of Charity improve their standards, they risk
damaging not only the health of those in their care but also the
reputation of one of the world’s most remarkable women.” Sister Nirmala
Joshi, now superior general of the order, was not available for
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The Times of India India's leading news paper, independently confirmed
the story. Sister Nirmala, superior-general of the Missionaries of
Charity, was abroad. In her absence, Mother House spokesperson Sister
Christie responded to the queries. She confirmed: “Daya Dan has 59
children. Of them some are spastics. These children are tied up, but for
limited periods only. This is done for their safety. These children can
easily harm themselves.’’</span></div>
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is fraught with medical negligence and financial fraud. I usually don't
get a lot of these, but I was not going to just ignore this one. Take a
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From: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx</div>
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To: xxxxxx@xxxxxx</div>
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Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 3:34 am</div>
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Subject: New Contact Message</div>
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I
am outraged. You do not have any say in how the Missionaries of Charity
operate, especially when some of your photographs of India's "poorest
of the poor" are being SOLD to fund your own personal life as an
"independent artist". Disgusting. Have you ever even cleaned and
bandaged a wound with maggots crawling in it? Have you ever changed a
woman who is on her period and blood is all over her clothing? Have you
ever been defecated on?? Think of it. And then think of Indian life. You
just don't get it do you. Try a little humility and empathy before you
LASH OUT and try to make a buck. OH, also try taking care of the poor
for more than 2 months.</div>
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Try READING more about me before lashing out ignorantly.</div>
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I
currently live in Kolkata, I work in the slums everyday with the
poorest of the poor, I make seriously little money through my photos,
I've managed to save some money by working hard for a while back at home
before returning to India to positively change the lives of people in
serious need. Here's the link to my own charity: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/responsiblecharity" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.<wbr></wbr>com/responsiblecharity</a></div>
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I've
cleaned blood, mucus, I've been defecated on by the destitute of India,
picked live maggots out of wounds for hours and cremated more than a
dozen men and women while working with the incredibly archaic and often
inefficient Missionaries of Charity. Damn right I have a right to
question how these monsters operate and shame on you for blindly adoring
these nuns and thinking you are actually doing something good by
keeping your mouth shut.</div>
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I
usually don't answer stupid mail such as yours, don't get a lot if
anyway, but you actually epitomize a big part of the problem, the
volunteer who continues to glorify this fraudulent and outdated
organization, while actually hurting those they claim to help by keeping
them in these museums of poverty.</div>
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If
you want to truly make a difference, start by demanding that the
Missionaries of Charity report every single dollar they have received in
donations until today and how all the funds have really been applied,
if they do so, the world will discover they've been quite busy
propagating their religious dogma while "patching" some of the issues of
poverty instead of looking for viable solutions to END poverty with the
millions and millions of dollars received from their unsuspecting
donors.</div>
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Again,
READ. You will discover hundreds of links from reporters, volunteers,
journalists, some doctors, nurses and even nuns who themselves have left
what is essentially a cult.</div>
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Dr Franco, worked as a volunteer at Deepashram, established by Mother
Teresa in 1995, for six months and complained to the Vatican Embassy
about sexual abuse of children at the home, citing that it was “common”
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Deepashram orphanage at Gurgaon - for mentally and physically
challenged children - has found itself in a controversy after an Italian
neurologist complained to the Vatican Embassy about sexual abuse of
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The neurologist, Dr Franco, had worked as a volunteer at Deepashram,
established by Mother Teresa in 1995, for six months a couple of years
ago. Brothers Contemplative - the male wing of Missionaries of Charity -
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Franco registered his complaint at the Apostolic Nunciature,
Chanakyapuri. Second secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature, Father
Tomasz Grysa, said they received the "communication from Dr Franco" in
February this year. The case has been referred to the hierarchical
superiors of the Missionaries of Charity Brothers, Father Grysa said.</div>
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At the orphanage, volunteers did not rule out the possibility of sexual
abuse of younger inmates by the older ones. Brother Benedict, a
volunteer from Rome, said: "If any case of this kind is reported to us,
the guilty boys are punished."</div>
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Abdullah, a 15-year-old inmate, said it was "common" for the older boys
to sodomise the younger boys at night when no one was on guard. He
accused a 24-year-old of sodomising a 12-year-old. "Bahut se bachche
yahan par ganda kaam karte hain," he said.</div>
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Brother Benedict and attendants dismissed the allegation. Abdullah was
shifted from the children's home at Majnu Ka Tila to Gurgaon as he was a
troublemaker, Brother Benedict said.</div>
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Another volunteer at the orphanage, Dr Wanda Toso from San Raffele
Hospital in Milan, told HT that Franco had also told her about child
abuse at Deepashram. She, however, did not have any personal
confirmation from the boys as she did not speak Hindi.</div>
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"I have not been able to interact with the children," Toso said.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 1991 audit of the UK operation revealed that only 7% of the total income of about $2.6USD million went into charity work. The rest was remitted to the Vatican Bank. And this audit was just for ONE year in only ONE country; this organization is 61 years old as of today with 700+ houses in 100+ countries. </span><br />
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new lawsuit sheds light on the S.F. years of Mother Teresa's spiritual
adviser – who is also one of the Jesuit order's most notorious convicted
pedophiles.<br />
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McGuire at Doe 129’s baptism in 1978.<br />
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McGuire was known for captivating audiences with his talks on theology.<br />
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In 1985, McGuire plays with Doe 129 at the boy’s home.<br />
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McGuire, Doe 129, and Mother Teresa at the Missionaries of Charity convent in San Francisco in 1991.<br />
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Known for his conservatism, McGuire liked women to wear long skirts in his presence.<br />
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The Missionaries of Charity convent in Noe Valley as it looks today.<br />
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Father Donald McGuire and John Doe 129 at the boy’s first communion in 1982.<br />
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Peter Jamison on pedophile priest Donald McGuireTwo decades ago, an
11-year-old boy from the Bay Area was honored with an invitation most
devout Catholics would envy. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, winner of the
1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the developing world's poor,
was celebrating Mass at her order's convent in Noe Valley. The ceremony
was part of a retreat led by one of the famed humanitarian nun's close
spiritual advisers, a Jesuit priest and former University of San
Francisco professor named Donald McGuire.<br />
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It was at McGuire's bidding that the 11-year-old came to serve as an
altar boy that morning at St. Paul's Convent, a boxy building of yellow
stucco that rises from a tree-lined block near the intersection of 29th
and Church streets. (The convent houses local novices in the
international Missionaries of Charity order, founded by Mother Teresa in
1950.) The priest was close to the boy's family: He had baptized the
boy, and offered his mother spiritual and psychological counseling over
the years. Indeed, within church circles, McGuire was something of a
celebrity himself.<br />
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Steeped, as are all Jesuits, in the cerebral traditions of Catholicism,
McGuire dazzled his many admirers with his command of ancient history
and literature. He could speak eloquently about philosophy and theology,
and deployed his rhetoric to powerful effect during multiday religious
seminars based on the teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the
Jesuits' founder. He had silvering brown hair and a round, red Irish
face that often creased into a puckish smile. He liked to give advice.
And he liked to hear confession.<br />
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On that morning almost 20 years ago, however, McGuire's interests were
more profane than sacred. Following a morning Mass, he asked the boy to
retire with him to a private chamber reserved for the priest at the
convent. While the nuns and Mother Teresa milled about, McGuire closed
the door to his room and asked his favored altar boy to join him, in his
cot, for a nap. The boy lay down. The priest lay on the outside of the
narrow bed and then reached across the boy's body and into his pants.<br />
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So said the boy in a recent interview with SF Weekly. Now 30, he is
suing the Jesuits for turning a blind eye to McGuire's repeated acts of
child molestation. His lawsuit was filed this winter in Cook County,
Ill., home of the Chicago Province of the Jesuits, where McGuire kept
his primary residence.<br />
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The boy — who is identified in court documents only as John Doe 129, and
requested that SF Weekly not publish his name or hometown to spare him
the stigma attached to childhood sexual abuse — is accusing the Chicago
Province of negligence and fraud in failing to keep McGuire away from
children. He and his attorneys allege that over a period of about 10
years beginning in 1988, McGuire forced the boy to massage the priest's
genitals and watch him masturbate, among other acts of abuse.<br />
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Doe 129 is not the first to accuse McGuire, now an ailing 79-year-old,
of such misdeeds. In 2006, the priest was convicted in a Wisconsin court
of molesting two teenage boys he had taught decades earlier at a
prominent Jesuit high school in the Midwest. Earlier this year, a
federal judge in Illinois sentenced McGuire to 25 years in prison after a
jury found him guilty of traveling abroad with a teenage boy to
sexually abuse him. (For his part, McGuire still insists he is innocent
and has appealed his latest conviction.)<br />
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While the federal case rested on molestation charges involving only one
boy, investigators believed McGuire had abused dozens during his career.
In fact, Jesuit leaders first received complaints about the priest in
1969, although he was not officially defrocked until last year. Some of
the ex-priest's alleged victims — many of them now grown men — and their
family members were permitted to address U.S. District Court Judge
Rebecca Pallmeyer during his sentencing hearing. Their statements, not
surprisingly, were emotionally charged. The Arizona father of two boys
McGuire allegedly molested said he would like to hand down his own
sentence on the ex-priest using a baseball bat.<br />
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One of those who traveled to Chicago to speak out was the mother of the
altar boy allegedly molested at the Missionaries of Charity convent in
San Francisco. "I told the judge that I thought that he deserved the
maximum sentence," she said. "Even we, as adults, couldn't stand up to
someone who was Mother Teresa's confessor. Can you imagine children that
have no voice?"<br />
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Doe 129's lawsuit is just one of multiple pending civil cases against
McGuire nationwide. But it is the first to draw attention to the strong
San Francisco ties of the man who is arguably the most prominent
convicted child abuser in the Jesuits' 470-year history. Interviews with
McGuire's former colleagues, associates, and admirers cast light on the
pivotal phases of his life that took place in this city — it was in San
Francisco that he began his working relationship with Mother Teresa —
and suggest that the disgraced ex-priest committed acts of abuse here
for which neither he nor his superiors have ever been held to account.<br />
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In 1976, Father Joseph Fessio, a Jesuit instructor at the University of
San Francisco, was busy recruiting students and professors for a new
classics program. Called the St. Ignatius Institute, it would focus on a
traditional "great books" curriculum, functioning as an autonomous
college within the university. As he organized the institute, Fessio got
a call from a well-known Jesuit teacher from the Midwest who was
interested in joining. His name was Donald McGuire.<br />
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Fessio had heard of McGuire. By reputation, he was "very dynamic" and "a
very exciting teacher," Fessio recalls, known for his orthodoxy and
loyalty to the church. The truth, as documents unearthed in McGuire's
subsequent criminal and civil cases would later reveal, was more
complicated. As a matter of fact, at the time he came to USF, McGuire's
Midwestern superiors had already received complaints that he had
sexually molested two boys at Loyola Academy, a Jesuit high school in
Illinois. (The same incidents eventually led to McGuire's first criminal
conviction in 2006.)<br />
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Fessio, now an editor at Ignatius Press, a San Francisco–based
publishing house, said in an interview that he didn't know about the
skeletons in McGuire's closet back then. But once McGuire moved to San
Francisco and began teaching freshman seminars in ancient Greek
literature and history, it didn't take long for Fessio to notice that
his new colleague had a dark side.<br />
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"He loved the classics, and he communicated that to the kids. That was
the positive side," Fessio said. "There was a negative side. He seemed
like he had to have people around him. He needed to have an audience.
... For all of us, our failings are pretty well interwoven in our
personalities. There was a talent, but it was kind of a dangerous
talent, and I was always a little bit reserved toward it."<br />
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McGuire was mercurial, quick to turn on colleagues or friends, and
inclined to nurse grudges. He was also prone to bragging — even about
his own piety. "Joe, I can pray circles around you," Fessio recalled
McGuire once saying to him. "It was a weird claim."<br />
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Father Cornelius Buckley, a former history teacher at the St. Ignatius
Institute, said he was troubled by the strangely intense attachments
McGuire cultivated among select groups of students. (In contrast to his
strained relations with other teachers, McGuire was always wildly
popular with those enrolled in his classes, former colleagues say.)
Those students who followed the Greek professor's banner "seemed to be
more involved with him than they were with the program," Buckley
recalled in a telephone interview from Santa Paula, Calif., where he is
now chaplain at Thomas Aquinas College.<br />
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McGuire taught at the St. Ignatius Institute for four years. Jesuit
records from that period show that Buckley wasn't the only one vexed by
McGuire's closeness to his students. Father Alfred Naucke, an official
at the California Jesuit Province, said his office's files on McGuire
indicate that USF officials frowned upon the priest's practice of
inviting students into his private room. (Those students were most
likely boys, since women would not have been permitted to enter the
university's Jesuit residences.)<br />
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In May 1981, then-USF Dean David Harnett wrote a letter to California
provincial officials, obtained by SF Weekly, explaining that McGuire
would not be rehired for the following academic year. Among the reasons
Harnett cited for the priest's sacking were "highly questionable acts on
his part" and "interactions with a student." Reached by telephone in
Philadelphia, where he now lives in retirement, Harnett said he did not
recall the letter or the circumstances of McGuire's departure. Father
Joseph Angilella, academic vice-president of the university at the time,
declined to comment on McGuire's firing or whether it was linked to
incidents of abuse involving USF students. "It's unfortunate you have
that letter, but I'm not going to add to it," he said. "This material is
confidential in terms of the decision that was made. I assure you that
nothing that happened during these times has anything to do with the
present legal matters that are happening in the Midwest."<br />
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Doe 129's attorneys plan to depose California Jesuits, including some
formerly associated with USF. However, university records — as opposed
to those kept by the California Province — illuminate almost nothing
about McGuire's time as a professor in San Francisco. Apparently, that's
because they no longer exist. When Doe 129's lawyers requested the
school's personnel records on the priest from the four years he taught
at the St. Ignatius Institute, they were told that the file on one of
the church's most notorious predators had been thrown out.<br />
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In an e-mail response to questions about McGuire from SF Weekly, USF
spokesman Gary McDonald offered this explanation: "USF retains employee
records for seven years after an employee leaves the university, and USF
has few employee records dating back 30 years, including those of
Donald McGuire."<br />
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McGuire's ouster from the university's St. Ignatius Institute did not
signal the end of his career. Far from it. Throughout the 1980s and
'90s, he took up the life of an itinerant spiritual adviser. Based at a
Jesuit residence in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, McGuire trotted the
globe, leading the Ignatian spiritual retreats that had become the
hallmark of his ministry. The retreats typically involved daylong prayer
and ritual interspersed with talks from a priest. During these trips,
observers say, McGuire was often accompanied by teenage male attendants
who he said helped him manage his diabetes.<br />
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It was during this time that McGuire first met Mother Teresa. Fessio
said he introduced the pair after the nun had asked him during a visit
to San Francisco to recommend a priest who could lead retreats for the
nuns of her order. Despite the two men's prickly relationship while
academic colleagues in the late 1970s, Fessio suggested she seek out
McGuire.<br />
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From the beginning, Fessio said, Mother Teresa's opinion of McGuire was
"very high." Though he was probably not — as he liked to boast — her
most esteemed spiritual adviser and confessor, observers of the pair
agree that she respected McGuire, and would occasionally confess her
sins to him.<br />
<br />
Judie Hockel and her husband, Jack, often hosted McGuire's retreats in
Northern California at their Walnut Creek home. The couple met him
through their oldest son, who was a student at USF during McGuire's time
there. (On his subsequent trips to the Bay Area, McGuire often stayed
at a house attached to a Carmelite monastery adjacent to the USF
campus.) Even now, Judie Hockel, 70, finds it hard to reconcile
McGuire's charisma and intellectual heft with his acts of abuse.<br />
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"Everything seemed to combine together to give him a really superhuman
ability — it probably was superhuman; Satan is pure intelligence, and
maybe that's where it came from — to make you feel that you were liked
by God, that you were worthy of being loved by God, that Christ was
calling you to be closer to him," she said. "Catholicism is an adult
religion. I certainly would not want to deny the significance of faith,
but a lot of times people need a grasp of the rational thought. They're
not getting the depth or the richness of Catholicism from the pulpit
these days, and Donald McGuire filled that need in many people's lives."<br />
<br />
In contrast to other Jesuits, who tend to occupy the liberal end of the
Catholic spectrum on political and cultural issues, McGuire was a
staunch conservative on doctrinal questions, including those involving
gender and sexuality. Brigid Crotty, a 40-year-old Napa resident whose
family became close to McGuire in the 1980s, recalled that the priest
demanded that women wear long skirts in his presence.<br />
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Looking back, Hockel said she could pick out "red flags" that signaled
an unstable personality. "There was always a chaos that surrounded his
presence," she said. Meetings started late; appointments were not kept;
people were made to wait, or to indulge McGuire's eccentricities. He was
something of a control freak, forcing his hosts to cater to strict
demands regarding his schedule, accommodations, and diet.<br />
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"He always wanted a salad with his meal," Hockel said. "He always wanted
four ounces of fresh-squeezed orange juice. I can't believe every time
he came I actually made an effort to squeeze orange juice. You look back
..." She paused. "I think deep down inside he enjoyed the coronation
that we laypeople gave him, because we felt so lucky that we had this
time with this brilliant, devout prophet."<br />
<br />
It was this later phase of McGuire's life, as a traveling Jesuit guru,
that federal authorities investigated as they built their case against
him. They discovered that the priest, while he preached the virtues of
intensely orthodox Catholicism to his followers, was subverting the
traditions of his calling in startling ways. According to a sentencing
memorandum filed by federal prosecutors after McGuire's conviction, one
of his primary means of "grooming" young abuse victims was the ritual of
confession.<br />
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For example, when the primary victim in the case confessed to McGuire at
the age of 13 that he masturbated, McGuire "seized on it" and said the
boy had an "addiction" that could send him to hell, according to court
documents. He then demanded to "inspect" the boy's penis using a
magnifying glass and baby oil.<br />
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Doe 129 said he was never abused in the confessional. But he does recall
other strange twists on McGuire's vocational interests. During a visit
to the Jesuit residence in Evanston, Doe 129 said, McGuire began
masturbating in front of him in a private upstairs room. The classics
scholar had allegedly preceded this exhibition with a discourse on how
gay sex was a common practice among the ancient Greeks.<br />
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There is reason to believe that Doe 129 was not McGuire's sole local
victim during his post-USF decades of world travel. A colleague of
McGuire's within the church said in a recent interview that he received a
complaint from a Bay Area family that McGuire was molesting their
teenage son in the years after the priest left the university. The
church official, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal from his
superiors, said he had passed the complaint on to McGuire's Jesuit
higher-ups. (Doe 129 confirmed that he was not the complainant.)<br />
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Likewise, Crotty said her father, Fran Crotty, a former administrator at
a North Bay Catholic school, was informed "in no uncertain terms"
sometime in the last few years by a local man that McGuire had abused
his son in the past. Reached by telephone, Fran Crotty declined to
comment. "I'm not at liberty to discuss anything concerning McGuire," he
said.<br />
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Stephen Komie, McGuire's Chicago-based lawyer, said in an interview that
his client continues to maintain that the allegations leveled at him
are lies intended to wring money from the church — and that his criminal
convictions are simply by-products of accusations that drove the civil
suits against him. "Father McGuire has always said that these are
stories made up for the financial benefit of the persons who are
bringing the case," Komie said.<br />
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It is true that the interplay among abuse victims, private attorneys,
and law-enforcement officials in McGuire's case has at times been
complicated. The victim whose complaint led to McGuire's federal
conviction — his identity was withheld during the trial, and he is named
in court records only as Dominick — originally consulted a private
attorney known for representing plaintiffs in priest-pedophilia civil
suits in Southern California. That attorney's name is Kevin McGuire, and
he is Donald McGuire's nephew.<br />
<br />
Kevin McGuire said he urged Dominick to take his allegations to federal
authorities, and accompanied him to the U.S. Attorney's office on the
day he filed a complaint. "I traveled in the same Catholic circles that a
lot of these same victims traveled in," he said. "I realized it was my
obligation to turn my uncle in. I'm doing it because it's the right
thing to do."<br />
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Kevin McGuire is also representing Doe 129, who claims he is motivated
by desire to hold the priest's superiors to account, rather than the
prospect of financial gain. The litigation "certainly hasn't made my
life any easier, and it's certainly not fun, and I certainly question
whether there's any justice that can be done," said Doe 129, who still
lives in the Bay Area. "I'm just really disgusted and furious about the
fact that they knew about this for so goddamn long, and didn't do
anything about it. If you had a carpet-cleaning business and a guy was a
rapist, you wouldn't let him out and about working for you."<br />
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In response to questions from SF Weekly about Doe 129's lawsuit, Chicago
Jesuit Provincial Edward Schmidt (the regional head of his order) said
in a statement that the province was "aware" of the suit. "Because this
matter involves a court action, we do not plan to make any further
comment about these particular allegations at this time," he said.<br />
<br />
Kevin McGuire said his uncle's time as a professor in San Francisco, and
his later trips to the Bay Area and around the world, were encouraged
by superiors as a "pass-the-trash" strategy to keep the predator priest
far from his home base. "USF was a place where the Chicago Province sent
Father McGuire to get him the hell out of their hair," he said. "That's
why this guy was allowed to roam around the country. They wanted him
everywhere but Chicago."<br />
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And he said that while there's no evidence Mother Teresa herself was
consciously covering up for the priest whose piety she admired, the nun,
who died in 1997, should have known something wasn't right.<br />
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"I think Mother Teresa had plenty of evidence in front of her that
something was wrong," Kevin McGuire said. "When you see Father McGuire
seven to nine times a year at your retreat houses or nunneries around
the world, and he's constantly with teenage boys who are essentially his
slaves, and to have these boys in your bedroom — yeah, I think that's
plenty of notice to anyone with oxygen in your brain. I don't care how
holy you think your confessor is. Something's wrong."<br />
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While Doe 129's lawsuit moves forward in Illinois, McGuire, who
according to his lawyer is legally blind and suffers from diabetes, has
begun serving his 25-year prison sentence at the Medical Center for
Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. His federal conviction is
pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. (In
May, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals denied his request for a new trial
in that state related to his earlier abuse charges.) Absent a successful
appeal, Komie said, his client "is not going to survive this prison
sentence."<br />
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As the disgraced priest faces his earthly end, he has resolutely
declined to embrace a concept at the very core of Catholicism:
repentance. McGuire, the great confessor, has never admitted guilt in
any of the instances of abuse for which he stands accused or convicted.
He has also taken what could be interpreted as a less-than-Christian
stance toward the victims who have chosen to speak against him.<br />
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"I want my accusers to be sentenced," he said during the postconviction
phase of his first trial in Wisconsin in 2006. McGuire took advantage of
his opportunity to address the judge prior to sentencing to profess his
innocence in a rambling soliloquy in which he compared himself to
Socrates, St. Thomas More, and Jesus. "I am humbled when I think of the
company of saints I'm called to join here," he said, according to a
trial transcript.<br />
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Earlier that day, McGuire said, he had meditated on his life. "I plead
with the Holy Spirit to enlighten me, show me, in what way am I not
living truthfully," he said. He added that he had resolved "to be more
truthful, more like Jesus. I don't know how other people live, but
that's the only way I can live." He continued, "Your Honor, I did all of
this with the image of Christ crucified before me. I've never been
closer to the crucified Christ, never in my life. It's a terrible
experience, but it's glorious."</div>
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her own words, Colette Livermore, a former nun from The Missionaries of
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self-inflected and unnecessary pain and suffering, blind obedience and
more while she was part of this most medically negligent and financially
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-82369321002111478802009-10-01T06:33:00.000-07:002013-07-31T07:29:48.753-07:00Does Mother Teresa deserve sainthood?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-8326984908893866332009-08-01T06:06:00.000-07:002013-07-31T07:29:27.892-07:00Indians wanting to volunteer with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are often rejected or turned away by the organization.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Interview with: Santosh Kumar Nayak<br />
By Hemley Gonzalez, STOP The Missionaries of Charity <a href="http://www.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com</a><br />
February 18, 2011<br />
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Indians
wanting to volunteer with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are
often rejected or turned away by the organization. Santosh Kumar Nayak, a
Kolkata native interested in volunteering and helping his fellow Indian
men and women who are less fortunate was refused by the Missionaries of
Charity, apparently a common practice as they prefer to keep a steady
flow of short-term foreign volunteers who can’t effectively communicate
with patients, aren’t in the city long enough to develop relationships
with the patients and most importantly will leave behind large
donations, wont demand financial information/transparency and or
necessary and significant changes needed inside the organization.<br />
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<strong>Hemley Gonzalez: Would you us tell which house you tried to volunteer in?</strong><br />
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<strong>Santosh Kumar Nayak</strong>: I tried volunteering at Kalighat and I was rejected because I am Indian.<br />
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<strong>HG: Please explain?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
When I went there my decision was to be a translator for the foreign
volunteers who don’t speak Hindi or Bengali. So I thought perhaps my
help as a translator could be effective. I was immediately told by the
nuns who run the house that they were full at that time and needed no
additional volunteers.<br />
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<strong>HG: Isn’t it strange
that they are rejecting help from someone who speaks the language of
their patients and instead prefer the help from foreign volunteers who
do not speak Bengali or Hindi?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
I found it very strange indeed. I explained to them I could be of great
help, including help from other Indians friends who are also willing to
volunteer and help with translations and other tasks but we quickly
came to the realization that what the Missionaries of Charity are
looking for is for the easy and large donations these foreigners bring
and leave Kolkata quickly.<br />
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<strong>HG: Would it also be
fair to say that if Indian volunteers were allowed in the houses
operated by the Missionaries of Charity they could start communicating
ideas for solutions?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> Yes of
course, things would start to change immediately, I felt this when I
visited Kalighat, I have seen other houses where communication with the
patients and genuinely hearing their concerns versus just only handing
them things as the nuns often do there would be major change and would
reduce the number of people they keep in this places.<br />
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<strong>HG: It’s it true that the workers in these houses are themselves Indians?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Yes, but there’s a big difference between someone who gets paid to do a
task versus someone who wants to come in and help without expecting
compensation and wanting to change things for the better. Besides, the
majority if not ALL of the workers are usually men and women from the
slums who are hired and paid very little so they rarely complain about
the things they see and in fact often remain quiet the negligence and
abuse they witness to protect their job. It is terrible.<br />
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<strong>HG: Have you spoken to the workers and ask if they could ever speak up about the horrible things they often witness?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> I once did and a nun came running towards me immediately screaming and asking who I was to question their practices!<br />
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<strong>HG: A nun, a foreign “social” worker questioned an Indian resident who is concerned for the welfare of other Indians?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> Yes, and aggressively, I really don’t understand what is going on there!<br />
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<strong>HG:
Actually it seems quite simple really, after analyzing the practices of
this organization for the last two years it seems their strategy is to
allow foreign volunteers who on an average come to these houses for 4-5
days and they don’t stay long enough to realize the monumental need for
improvements and changes and never witnesses a lot of the abuse that
takes place after their shifts are over and the patients are left alone
with the nuns and the workers. This is probably the main reason why they
don’t want outspoken and progressive Indians to come into these houses
because they would likely speak up and force the Missionaries of Charity
to change. Is that a fair assessment of the situation?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Absolutely. Especially with many of my friends who are well educated,
if they were to be allowed into these houses they would come forward to
the media and demand serious changes immediately. The Missionaries of
Charity are definitely scared of allowing middle class and educated
Indians inside the houses; they realize their negligence would be
exposed.<br />
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<strong>HG: So you seriously believe a rush of educated Indian volunteers would produce changes inside the Missionaries of Charity?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Yes, because as it stands right now it is a business. People from other
places around the world come, they see these sick people, they can’t
really communicate with them, and they do what the nuns tell them too,
leave some money and other donations and go home. Indians would never
stand for that.<br />
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<strong>HG: I have said this before
publicly several times and will say it again, I believe these houses are
“Museums of Poverty” and “Poverty Petting Zoos” where foreigners can
come for a few days, wash some clothes, clean floors, feed a few
homeless folks take some pictures and return home and because of this
machine and image that has been built around Mother Teresa they can say
and feel they did something great for humanity.</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Yes, and there is nothing great about this. As an Indian, I feel
ashamed, used and abused by these people who don’t even know our
language or culture and are just often passing through Kolkata as if
visiting these houses was just another attraction on their traveling
schedule.<br />
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<strong>HG: Do you have any idea of the kind of money the Missionaries of Charity receive in donations in India?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> I have no idea, no one does, and it is never reported.<br />
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<strong>HG:
As an Indian you have the first right to question and have any opinion
about any organization that comes to your country to help your people,
so what is your general opinion of the missionaries of Charity?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
This organization is a popular international charity, what happens
inside India versus what the world knows is very different. For example,
I have seen many items that have been donated to the Missionaries of
Charity and later re-sold on street markets; perfumes, food, clothes,
etc.<br />
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<strong>HG: You mean donations given to the Missionaries of Charity are being re-sold?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> Yes.<br />
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<strong>HG: what happens to the money from the sale of these items?</strong><br />
<strong>SKN:</strong>
No one really knows what happens with this money! The organization
receives tons of medicines, clothes, and other items that could
immediately help so many families living in the slums around Kolkata but
they only care about giving tours inside their houses and showing
foreigners the help they can control inside those walls – The money
vanishes. Period.<br />
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<strong>HG: There has been a lot of
controversy with the Missionaries of Charity and their religious
conversion practices in Indian and other parts of the world. For
example, baptizing Hindus and Muslims as Christians in exchange for
giving them help. Are you personally aware of any of these practices?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
I actually have personal knowledge and experience with this issue in
particular. I have a lot of friends and their families who only receive
help if they accept to convert to Christianity and we’re talking help
with things like rice, beans, just basic everyday items that anyone who
is poor needs. One of the better benefits they also offer in exchange
for conversion is an education in one of their Christian schools around
the city for the children of some families. The nuns also come around
the house of those they convert to make sure the families remove any
statues of references of their old gods which must all be replaced with
images of Jesus.<br />
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<strong>HG: So these nuns not only
actively convert but they also investigate and continue to make sure the
conversion of new families to their religion remains effective?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Yes they certainly do this. If I take my daughter to one of their
school tomorrow for admission, they would ask for a big donation and
would start pressuring me to convert my child and myself to their
religion. This is a fact.<br />
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<strong>HG: So these statements
the Missionaries of Charity often make that they aren’t in India to
convert anyone and only help regardless of religion aren’t true?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> They can tell whatever they want to the world. What we see here in India is a completely different story.<br />
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<strong>HG: What is your actual religion?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> I am Hindu.<br />
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<strong>HG:
Obviously you’ve tried to volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity
but that hasn’t worked out. Have you tried to volunteer with other
organizations?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> Absolutely. I
work with a small NGO that deals with educating children who live on
the streets or come from very poor areas and slums, the name of this
particular organization is: Lights of Hope, is a small NGO but one that
is very much dedicated to making a change in the lives of many children
in need around Kolkata without predicating any religion or asking
anything in return from those they help.<br />
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<strong>HG: So
this ridiculous idea that many people have that Mother Teresa’s
Missionaries of Charity is the only charity in Kolkata is just a myth?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong>
Yes of course. There are many NGOs here, some better than others,
especially those who are working with translators to understand the real
issues of people in need and giving Indians tools to empower
themselves, to educate themselves, to learn a trade or skill and with
all these efforts create a real chance for these people to overcome
poverty.<br />
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<strong>HG: You are 25 years, you’ve lived in
Kolkata all your life and have personally seen and witnessed the work of
the missionaries of charity, in your opinion, are they ever going to
change?</strong><br />
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<strong>SKN:</strong> If educated Indians
are allowed to volunteer inside these houses and start demanding
changes, they would certainly have to radicalize their entire operation.<br />
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<strong>HG:
I want to thank you for your time, for your courage to speak up and for
your interest to wanting to change things in your own country as I
personally believe it is your right and duty. Once again, thank you.</strong><br />
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Hemley Gonzalez<br />
STOP The Missionaries of Charity<br />
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This is Mother House one of he many houses operated by The Missionaries
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This is Daya Dan one of the many houses operated by The Missionaries of
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This is The Home of the Dying, one of the many houses operated by The
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-84796256217368162232009-07-01T05:43:00.000-07:002013-07-31T07:28:50.687-07:00Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mother Teresa and her missionary activity, particularly that she acted
as a political opportunist and dogmatist to the detriment of those
served by her charities. The book unfolds as an argument that Mother
Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) does not deserve beatification and
elevation to sainthood. Regarding the title's double entendre, Hitchens
remarked, "it was either </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_position" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Missionary position">that</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> or </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_%28idiom%29" style="background-image: none; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sacred cow (idiom)">Sacred Cow</a></i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">, and I thought</span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Sacred Cow</i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> would be in bad taste."</span></div>
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-69917065507371729582009-05-01T04:47:00.000-07:002013-07-31T04:47:46.312-07:00The unblessed of Calcutta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It
is not necessary to put down all other social workers in India, and in
Calcutta in particular, to highlight the good work done by Mother Teresa</i><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I
hate to spoil Mother Teresa’s big day — but then, I can’t spoil it
anyway. The few voices of dissent have been drowned out by the great
beatification bandwagon. A handful of rationalists, a few doctors in a
district in West Bengal, India, the lone voice of Christopher Hitchens,
who penned the no-holds-barred attack Mother Teresa in Theory and
Practice. That’s about it. Oh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad have called
Mother Teresa’s ‘miracle’ a fraud — but they have their own miracles to
tout. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Indeed,
giving organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad another issue to go to
town about might be added to the list of the harm laid at Mother
Teresa’s door. For she has done harm, just as she has done great good,
and especially as a Calcuttan I would be failing in my duties if I did
not speak up about it on the occasion of her fast-track beatification by
the Pope.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Anyone
who spends her life in the service of some of the poorest people on
earth is a ‘saint’ anyway as far as I am concerned. So I appreciate
whatever service Mother Teresa provided to the poor and destitute and
accept her as a fellow-Calcuttan. How pathetic, then, that the Catholic
Church clings to regulations that needed to record a ‘miracle’ — some
kind of super-natural feat, to be conjured up at any cost — before the
Vatican could officially bestow beatification on her. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This
has forced her Order to come up with the story of a woman in West
Bengal whose tumour was allegedly cured miraculously by the magical
powers of a locket of the Mother long after Mother Teresa had died. The
story has been called a hoax by the doctors who treated the woman as
well as by her husband, tainting Mother Teresa’s beatification with the
smear of fraud.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I
don’t mind the Pope making Mother Teresa a ‘saint’ — this is something
internal to the Catholic Church and none of my business. But I do have a
problem when recognition of Mother Teresa by her own Church has to be
based on a lie. Why couldn’t her work be enough to merit recognition?
The very process of making her a ‘saint’ has further encouraged
superstition and obscurantism. Perhaps many other poor people will now
decide to go for a Mother Teresa locket when they are ill, instead of
going to a medical clinic. That certainly does not serve the cause of
humanity.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Perhaps
the greatest harm she did to the very poor she said she served was her
total opposition to both abortion and contraception, in accordance with
her orthodox Catholic faith. She worked in a sea of poverty that is
India, yet opposed one of India’s most important anti-poverty policies —
its population control programme. When I visited her orphanage I was
grateful to her for taking in babies abandoned in the streets of
Calcutta, but there would be fewer abandoned and unwanted babies all
around if India’s family planning programme were more successful. She
had the right to her own faith, but her public work based on that faith
collided with what was better for society.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">For
someone about to become a saint, Mother Teresa was cosy with nasty
dictators like the Duvaliers of Haiti and notorious swindlers like
Charles Keating of the USA. She did not hesitate to declare that the
Duvaliers loved the poor, and did not care that Keating had stolen a lot
of money from people who weren’t rich, just because he gave her some.
In fact, she received lots of money from lots of people and it is
worrying when Christopher Hitchens reports that none of it is accounted
for through any public audit. It is also true, as Hitchens points out,
that her institutions offer only simple, rudimentary service, so the
vast funds do not seem to have been used to upgrade and modernise the
care provided.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Some
people have criticised Mother Teresa for proselytising in the guise of
caring for the dying and destitute. Frankly, if a sick man died with
dignity in her home having technically become a Catholic, it is
infinitely preferable to his dying a non-Catholic in the gutters of
Calcutta. More important is the question, how many of the ‘dying’ would
have benefited from modern medical care available in Calcutta? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If
Mother Teresa did not provide medical care to those who needed it when
it was readily available, that would be reprehensible. In her last years
Mother Teresa herself received some of the best medical care in modern
facilities with whole teams of doctors and nurses looking after her
every time she was taken ill. Her critics say that the destitute who
died in her institution were not afforded the same option.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Those
who criticise Mother Teresa have been accused of trying to hide their
embarrassment at the reality of a foreign woman spending her life caring
for desperately poor people about whom so many of their countrymen do
nothing. This is the most grotesquely unjust insult to the many
individuals in Calcutta who serve the poor and disadvantaged throughout
their lives. Some of them are associated with religious orders, some are
not. Some are foreign too, but most are Indian. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Unlike
Mother Teresa, many other social workers seem motivated towards helping
eradicate poverty. Most are limited in scope, constrained by limited
budgets. It is not necessary to put down all other social workers in
India, and in Calcutta in particular, to highlight the good work done by
Mother Teresa. Nor should it be necessary to be blind to the harm
caused by the rigidly orthodox faith of Teresa, the Blessed of
Calcutta. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><i style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sarmila
Bose is Assistant Editor, Ananda Bazar Patrika, India & Visiting
Scholar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
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Mother Teresa harmed Calcutta irreparably and seriously damaged the
city's economic prospects. The city's dent in reputation through her
association is not compensated by the modest level of charity she
performed there. Chatterjee maintains that a large section of Indians,
especially the rich and powerful was enthralled by and connived with
her. Indians generally, still burdened with psychological colonialism,
capitulated before her. Calcuttans did not protest at their city's
calumny because of the Indian pusillanimity before the white man, and
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The Final Verdict - Introduction</div>
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Mother
Teresa once made me cry. The year was 1988 - I was on one of my frequent
holidays or visits to Calcutta from Britain, where I had moved to in
1985. I was standing by the kerb-side in Gariahat Morr, munching on a
famous 'mutton roll'. I was looking at scenes I had grown up with -
pavements almost obliterated by shops, people having to weave their way
through hawkers peddling their fares; buses tilted to one side by the
sheer weight of passengers and belching out black diesel smoke, trams
waiting for a manual change of tracks before they could turn, the
familiar neon sign of an astrologer.</div>
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In the midst
of all this I remembered the 'Calcutta' of the West - Calcutta the
metaphor, not the city. In my three years in the West I had come to
realise that the city had become synonymous with the worst of human
suffering and degradation in the eyes of the world. I read and heard
again and again that Calcutta contained an endless number of 'sewers and
gutters' where an endless number of dead and dying people lay - but not
for long - as 'roving angels' in the shape of the followers of a
certain nun would come along looking for them. Then they would whisk
them away in their smart ambulances. As in my twenty-seven years in
Calcutta I had never seen such a scene, (and neither have I met a
Calcuttan who has), it hurt me deeply that such a wrong stereotype had
become permanently ingrained in world psyche. I felt suddenly
overwhelmingly sad that a city, indeed an entire culture should be
continuously insulted in this way.</div>
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I am
Calcuttan born and bred, and our family has lived in the city for as
long as can be traced. I know Calcutta well, and many people who matter
there, and many more who do not. I do not have Calcutta 'in my blood',
but the place has definitely made me what I am, warts and all. My mother
tongue is Bengali, the language of Calcutta, but I speak Hindi
passably, which is spoken by a large number of the destitutes of
Calcutta.</div>
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I had no
interest whatsoever in Mother Teresa before I came to England. Difficult
it may seem to a Westerner to comprehend, but she was not a significant
entity in Calcutta in her lifetime; paradoxically posthumously her
image has risen significantly there - primarily because of the Indian
need to emulate the West in many unimportant matters.</div>
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I had had
some interest in the destitutes of Calcutta during my college days, when
I dabbled in leftist politics for a while. I also took a keen interest
in human rights issues. Never in the course of my (modest) interaction
with the very poor of Calcutta, did I cross paths with Mother Teresa's
organisation - indeed, I cannot ever recall her name being uttered.</div>
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After living
for some time in the West, I (slowly) realised what Mother Teresa and
Calcutta meant to the world. It shocked and saddened me. In India
itself, to say you come from Calcutta is considered trendy, as
Calcuttans are considered, wrongly, 'brainy and dangerous'. The
Bombayite Gokhle is still widely quoted, 'What Bengal [Calcutta's state]
thinks today, that India thinks <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1129864926" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">tomorrow</span></span>.'
In India, Calcutta is - not entirely wrongly - stereotyped as a seat of
effete culture and anarchic politics. There is an Indian saying that
goes thus: 'If you have one Calcuttan you have a poet; with two you have
a political party, and with three you have two political parties.'</div>
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The Calcutta
stereotype in the West did not irk me as much as did the firmly held
notion that Mother Teresa had chosen to live there as its saviour. I was
astonished that she had become a figure of speech, and that her name
was invoked to qualify the extreme superlative of a positive kind; you
can criticise God, but you cannot criticise Mother Teresa - in common
parlance, doing the unthinkable is qualified as 'like criticising Mother
Teresa'. The number of times I have heard expressions such as 'So and
so would try the patience of Mother Teresa', I have lost count. Such
expressions would cause amazement and curiosity in Calcutta, even
amongst Mother Teresa's most ardent admirers.</div>
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Why I
decided to do 'something about it' I cannot easily tell. As a person I
am flawed enough to understand lies and deceit. Why certain people,
themselves no pillars of rectitude, decide to make a stand against
untruth and injustice is a very complex issue. Also, my wife, brought up
(a Roman Catholic) in Ireland on Teresa mythology, felt angry and
cheated when she went to Calcutta and saw how the reality compared with
the fairy tale; she has encouraged me in my endeavours.</div>
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In February
1994, I rang, without any introduction, Vanya Del Borgo at the
television production company Bandung Productions in London. She
listened to my anguished outpourings and, to cut a long story short,
eventually Channel 4 decided to undertake Hell's Angel (shown on
Britain's Channel 4 television on 8 November 1994), the very first
attempt to challenge the Teresa myth on television. Ms Del Borgo chose
Christopher Hitchens as the presenter, knowing him as she did from their
days together at The Nation in the United States. I am not happy with
how Hell's Angel turned out, especially its sensationalist approach,
such as Mr Hitchens's calling Mother Teresa 'a presumed virgin'. The
film however caused some ripple, in Britain and also internationally.</div>
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Mother
Teresa, one could argue in her favour, is dead and therefore would be
unable to defend herself against my charges. Criticisms of her however
peaked during her lifetime; apart from the November 1994 documentary,
there was a stringent (and quite detailed) attack on conditions in her
orphanages in India that was published in The Guardian of London (14
October 1996) - charges of gross neglect and physical and emotional
abuse were made. The article alleged her own complicity and knowledge in
the unacceptable practices that went (go) on in her homes. During
January 1997, a documentary - entitled Mother Teresa: Time for Change? -
critical of her working methods and accusing her of neglect, was shown
on various European television channels.</div>
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It was up to
Mother Teresa to have defended herself against such criticisms during
her lifetime. She did not. Her supporters (and others) would of course
say that she was like Jesus; that she would not demean herself by
protesting against muck raking - she would merely turn the other cheek.
Notwithstanding her image, she was a robust protester whenever she had a
case. Shortly before she died she got involved in legal wrangles with a
Tennessee bakery over the marketing of a bun; and more seriously, with
her one time close friend and ally, the author Dominique Lapierre, over
the script of a film on her life.</div>
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On both
occasions her Miami based solicitor got properly involved. And then,
there is that well-known letter of protest she wrote to Judge Lance Ito
protesting at the prosecution (she perceived it as persecution) of her
friend Charles Keating, the biggest fraudster in US history.</div>
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After her
death, her order continues with the litigious tradition - less than a
year after her death it was involved in a court case with the Mother
Teresa Memorial Committee, a Calcutta based organisation.</div>
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The German
magazine Stern (10 September 1998) published a devastating critique of
Mother Teresa's work on the first anniversary of her death. The article,
entitled 'Mother Teresa, Where Are Your Millions?', which took a year's
research in three continents, concluded that her organisation is
essentially a religious order that does not deserve to be called a
charitable foundation. No protest has been forthcoming from her order.</div>
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To the
charges of neglect of residents, indifference to suffering, massaging of
figures, manipulation of the media and knowingly handling millions of
dollars of stolen cash, Mother Teresa never protested. Her responses
were 'Why did they do it?', 'It was all for publicity.' She was
perturbed by the criticisms - so much so that after the 1994 documentary
she cancelled a religious mission to the Far East.</div>
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During her
lifetime I wrote to Mother Teresa numerous times asking for a formal
interview with either her or one of her senior deputies. I had agreed to
meet her in Calcutta, or at the Vatican - mindful her frequent trips
there - or indeed, at any other place in the world. Despite her image -
carefully nurtured by her own self - of one who shunned the media and
publicity, she had always bent over backwards to give interviews to
sympathetic world media (in other words, all the world's media). In 1994
she spent a whole day talking to Hello! magazine; the same magazine ran
a lengthy interview with her successor in 1998. She however never even
acknowledged any of my many requests for an interview. I had met her
briefly on occasions in the company of a roomful of worshipful admirers,
but I did not feel that was the time or the place to ask uncomfortable
questions.</div>
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After two
years of trying, when I failed to elicit any response from her or her
order, I contacted her official biographers to ask whether they would
answer some of the serious question marks hanging over her operations.
All of them, bar one, replied, but only to turn me down. All of this
happened while Mother Teresa was alive.</div>
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Many people
tell me that Mother Teresa should be left alone because she did
'something' for the underprivileged. I do not deny that she did. However
her reputation, which was to a good extent carefully built up by
herself, was not on a 'something' scale. More importantly, that
'something', at least in Calcutta, was quite little, as my book will
show. Even more importantly, she had turned away many many more than she
had helped - although she had claimed throughout her life that she was
doing everything for everybody. My brief against her is not that she did
not address the root or causes of suffering and I am not for a moment
suggesting that she ought to have done so, as I understand the
particular religious tradition she came from - I am saying that there
was a stupendous discrepancy between her image and her work, between her
words and her deeds; that she, helped by others of course, engaged in a
culture of deception.</div>
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On a
superficial level, I need to tell the truth about Teresa because I feel
humiliated to be associated with a place that is wrongly imagined to
exist on Western charity. Perhaps the main reason why I want to tell
this story is because, I believe, each of us has a duty to stand up and
protest when history is in danger of being distorted. In a few years'
time Mother Teresa will be up there, glittering in the same galaxy as
Mozart and Leonardo.</div>
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I wish to
convey my thanks to the some of the world's most powerful publishing
firms who put up obstacle after obstacle in the path of this book.
Indeed, the British arm of a multinational publishing house signed me up
and then cancelled the contract nine months later by sending me a
half-page fax. My resolve to get the book published grew all the more
stronger by such obstacles.</div>
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I know I cannot change 'history' as pre-ordained by the powerful world media, but I can attempt to put a footnote therein.</div>
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I would disapprove of my book being called 'controversial', as I see it as a book of hard facts, albeit disturbing sometimes.</div>
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Calcutta has
recently been renamed Kolkata by its rulers and a section of its
citizens. The new name, which is politically correct and is closer to
the vernacular pronunciation, has caught on faster than expected. In
this book, I have exclusively used 'Calcutta', partly because to me it
makes more historical sense, and also because to tell the story of
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Another of Mother Teresa’s houses of horror: Electroshock therapy as punishment, women chained to beds and more…<br />
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(PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTOS AT THE END OF THE INTERVIEW)<br />
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The
following is my hour long interview with a volunteer currently working
in Shanty Dan, a home for mentally challenged women in Kolkata, India.
This particular volunteer has asked that her identity remains private as
she is still working inside this home.<br />
<br />
The following is a
shocking and terrifying look at one of the medical institutions
operated by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and another primary
example of the rampant negligence that is now far too common with this
organization.<br />
<br />
<br />
January 24th, 2011<br />
Interview by Hemley Gonzalez<br />
<a href="http://www.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com</a><br />
<br />
<strong>Hemley Gonzalez: Please tell us about this home you are volunteering in:</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>Volunteer:</strong>
This particular facility holds between 250-300 female patients at any
given time; it consists of a large building with two stories, general
dormitories packed with beds, a large interior hallway where the
patients spend most of their time, bathrooms and a dining room.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What exactly is the specialty of this medical facility?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Actually from what I understood initially, it’s not meant to be a
medical facility, but rather a home that women with mental health
problems go to, and once they get better they return to their homes.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Would you then say it is a mental institution?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, it seems like a psychiatry-unit type of place.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
When you say psychiatry unit, are there any certified psychiatrists
permanently in the building who actually administer treatment? And could
you please elaborate on the type of treatment these women receive while
in this house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V: </strong>There’s a
doctor who comes in once a week, on Tuesdays, none of the volunteers are
quite sure on his credentials and or qualifications in psychiatry,
psychology or otherwise. In addition to this man’s visit, there is a nun
who resides in the home and is in charge of handing pills to all the
patients, again, not really sure what the pills are exactly as
information is rarely shared with volunteers but the number of pills
handed out is staggering.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Do you think these are psychotropic medicines that are being given to ALL patients?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Definitely a mood altering drug and it is handed to both the upstairs and downstairs patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: And this broad regiment of pills for all the patients is prescribed by one doctor who comes in only once a week? </strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, there is no proper diagnosis, but rather some ideas which they
come up with while quickly observing the patients. I believe sedation is
more of the goal rather than specific diagnosis.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How many nuns are on staff and how many paid workers who operate this house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Six paid workers and three nuns<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Do they provide meals for these patients?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, breakfast, lunch dinner and tea and biscuits as snacks.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How many volunteers come to the house and for what length of time each day?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Usually ½ a dozen or less, we come in the morning about 8:00AM and leave by 12-1PM<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What are volunteers asked to do?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
We do practical chores, check and treat for lice, combing and cutting
hair, nails, etc. Although I thought the focus was and should be
rehabilitation programs with these patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
When you talk about lice, are these in patients who are just arriving or
some of the ones who have been in the home for a while?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Well, it looks like the problem is always present, even when new
patients come in without it; we seem to have the lice in our long term
patients as well.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Doesn’t it seem odd that a medical facility has an ongoing lice problem?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Well, the way I had been presented with information about this house, I
thought I was coming to a home and not a medical place, but now after
been here for over a month, I see how it completely is a medical
facility, as all these women are constantly being given drugs and on
Tuesdays there is additional treatment performed by the visiting doctor.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What kind of treatment?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
It’s actually been one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen; it
is electroshock treatment, and something that now I’ve noticed is far
too common. Many of the women who first come in are given it for six
weeks, especially those who are physically unruly, and to the point
where they only stop the treatment in some of them until they completely
stop talking.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So are you saying that patients
who come in and aren’t properly diagnosed or as it seems to be the
case, not diagnosed at all are receiving electroshock therapy so they
can be subdued?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes. A lot of
the women are suffering from incidents that have happened in the past,
not necessarily being physically violent, suffering from internal
trauma, perhaps some anger issues, asking for attention, and perhaps a
range of other psychological ailments but the problem is that no one
assesses the problem, how to treat the problem and actually treat the
problem properly. They are just given electroshock therapy!<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
So they are resorting to deliberately applying electroshock to these
women without actually diagnosing their conditions as a way to try and
calm them down?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How many instances of these electroshock therapies have you personally witnessed?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Usually on Tuesdays is when they do these treatments because that’s the
only day the doctor comes, and the first time I witnessed 6 women going
into the room.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How different was the behavior prior to and after receiving these treatments?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
There is one patient for example who is very outspoken, likes to sing
and engage in conversation with volunteers and other patients, when she
came out of the room she was almost in a comma stage, foam coming out
her mouth, unresponsive and was wheeled out in a stretcher. A few hours
later she became somewhat conscious and was complaining of a massive
headache and dizziness as well as being extremely confused. Clearly a
horrible feeling for anyone who is submitted to this sort of procedure.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So this goes on Tuesdays. Have you witnessed it taking place on more than one week?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes I’ve seen it a number of weeks since I’ve been here and many women
going through the same, but more recently since myself and other
volunteers have been very worried and spoken about it they started to do
it in hiding, so it’s hard to tell which women are being submitted to
it and how many.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Did you actually witness some of the electroshock procedures and how many?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, I saw a line of women waiting for the application and after seeing
the first one being applied, it horrified me. The women waiting in
line were not told anything that was about to happen and became
apprehensive as some of the other women who had been submitted to the
electroshock were being wheeled out of the room in a stretcher while
foaming at the mouth.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: After you spoke about this barbaric practice, what happened?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Almost immediately they banned volunteers from coming near the room
where the electroshocks are performed. The glass window that looks into
the room was covered with a curtain and on Tuesdays, the day they are
performed, volunteers were being asked to perform other tasks away from
the area where the treatments take place. What’s even worse now, the
nuns are considering to close the doors to volunteers, so the horrors
will continue without witnesses who can defend these patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Do you believe these nuns are actually performing electroshock therapy
themselves without the presence of the doctor who comes in once a
week?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> I wouldn’t put it pass
them. And in any case, they line up the women they want to punish and
make the doctor apply the electroshock on Tuesdays. Some of them for up
to six weeks which basically renders them useless for a long time
after.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How do they hide the treatments now?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
One of the French volunteers who spoke up a week ago was kicked out by
one of the nuns and was asked to never come back. Then I spoke up and
went as far as writing a report which the nuns in charge refused to
read, basically telling me I didn’t know anything about what was going
on, and that I didn’t have any medical experience to question them.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Now that you have been forbidden to participate or witness the
electroshock sessions of which you spoke against so strongly, what
other tasks you asked to do with your time there?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
We try to do some fun activities with the women, playing games,
speaking to them kindly (unlike the forcefully and aggressive manner in
which the nuns often speak to them).<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Do any of these nuns themselves have any medical experience, expertise and or certification in the psychiatric field? </strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> No. The nun in charge used to be a dentist, and that is the extend of the medical knowledge from any of them in this house.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So one volunteer has been kicked out and your concerns and report ignored?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
The report I gave to the nun, was intended for the nun, and the
interaction between her and the doctor who could care less about any of
these women. He doesn’t diagnose them and seems to be more interested in
just applying the electroshock when he does his weekly visit. If the
women are kept sedated so they don’t create additional work for the nuns
or the paid workers, then the doctor does his job “well”. There is a
nun who is basically in charge of choosing which women are to receive
the electroshock, and incidentally also has the power to stop it, so I
figure I would research some information about electroshock therapy and
show her the devastating effect this type of treatment could have on
people who are not candidates for it in hopes of stopping this madness.<br />
<br />
A
lot of the information available in the web and medical sites all point
to the same problematic side effects, such as memory loss, and in
applying the findings to the patients directly I started to see how a
lot of the cognitive functions were affecting their brains; particularly
in women where there was some sort of normalcy days prior to them being
placed under this barbaric therapy and after having essentially a
mental meltdown.<br />
<br />
What really unsettled me was the fact
that a lot of these women came into Shanty Dan to get better and leave,
but this isn’t happening because after electroshocks some of them have
actually made them worse.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What did they do with your report when you suggested all these possible treatments?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> The head nun, Benedicta basically laughed in my face and flat out said: "I don’t have time to read any of this documents"<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
If they are too busy to read reports pertaining the work they are
there to do, what exactly do they occupy their time with instead?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Looking after the women I suppose and not very efficiently obviously.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Why aren’t the nuns at Shanty Dan hiring full time psychiatrists? For
an institution holding nearly 300 patients with a wide range of mental
illness, you would have to have several professionals on staff at all
times. What’s happening here?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
When I asked one of the nuns why weren’t any doctors she said the most
ridiculous thing: “there are no counselors in India” “You find them and
bring them here” “you wouldn’t be able to find any around”<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Pardon the expression but that seems to be a crazy thing to say,
wouldn’t doctors love the opportunity to accept a high paying job to
look after 300 patients?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Agreed.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
So there is one nun who has some dentistry background, one doctor who
comes in once a week who is supposedly a psychiatrist and prescribes a
broad regiment of pills to about three hundred patients and about six
medically untrained workers who look after the patients. What is your
take of the actual state of this institution?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V: </strong>Is
a big joke, they don’t care about any of the women there; they just
have some workers to look after them and don’t seem to take seriously
their conditions, certainly not a home for mentally challenged women
where the goal would be to improve their lives. It’s basically a
building filled with women with lots of mental issues who are vulnerable
and in real need of help.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Where you told or
explained prior to volunteering that this was a place where women would
be helped and or empowered to get better from certain mental illnesses?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Actually we weren’t actually told anything of value at the
orientation/registration which was just two minutes long and they
basically said the place was a home for mentally challenged women. And
of course I assumed this was a place where women got treated properly so
they could get on with their lives, I really didn’t think I would
encounter what I have witnessed in my time here.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
When you speak of aggressive behavior, is this something that happens
frequently at the hands of the nuns and workers who operate the house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Nuns and workers often treat the women angrily and harshly, they show
signs of disgust and exhaustion in working there and understandingly so
as some of the patients can be a handful, but for a place with three
hundred patients and so little workers, it is expected that problems
will arise. The patients are often beaten by workers who without any
proper medical training often resort to violence in an effort to
institute order.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What kind of financial compensation do some of these workers receive for their work in this home?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
I know they are not getting a lot, especially since a many of them live
in slums. In many cases 30-50 rupees a day from what I've heard.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
So these are women from the slums who are themselves in great financial
need and even less likely to obtain medical training to deal with
almost three hundred mentally ill patients?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
The workers have their own issues, and they even have come to accept
the idea that the shock therapy is actually a good thing because they
hear it from the doctor and the nuns, in particular nun Benedicta and
another who we’ve branded the evil nun, especially after personally
seeing her torturing some of the older patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: One of the nuns tortures the women how?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Sadistic stuff, emotional abuse for instance, demeaning them, I seen
her doing that with some of the older patients, for example, one of the
volunteers who comes in and does some of the dressing and cures for
patients who need it, an old lady who has a wound in her back and the
volunteer needed help moving the patient around to get to the sore and
the nun literally yanked her forcefully in front of the other patients,
pulled up her dress and in degrading manner laid her down while asking
the patient to stop being shy and exposing a private and serious wound
to the rest of the floor, zero dignity, while telling her to stop crying
in front of the volunteers and remind her that once the volunteers
leave, she will still be here to deal with her. How sadistic and
frightening is this?<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Basically this home becomes a house of horror for a lot of these patients once the volunteers leave?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, especially with this one nun who we now call the evil nun, she is middle aged, heavy.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Are most of the nuns obese? I seem to find a large number of sedentary women who work for this organization. Why is that?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
She’s actually quite big, a round face Bengali women, and she’s almost
as big as the other two nuns in the house, Benedicta and Maria. They
often just sit around and let the volunteers and workers do most of the
work, of course, their diets are well proportioned with proteins and
items which the patients don’t often get themselves.<br />
<br />
Speaking
of this “evil” nun, it’s actually evident that she has some mental
issues of her own, the way she behaves with other patients, very
sadistically, and even the workers agree there is something wrong with
her, as they too allude to the fact that she is especially abusive with
the patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So even workers actually admit that there is something wrong with this particular nun who is also running this house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, all the workers feel very negatively about her and even volunteers
no longer listen to her. In one instance she began to stab the feet of
the old lady with the infected wound.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Stabbing the patient’s feet?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes with a pair of scissors.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: For what reason?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> It was very strange; it seemed like a personal thrill for her.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: And this is being done by a nun who is clearly disturbed?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, clearly no sane person does some of the things this woman does.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What would you say is required for this house to operate as the mental facility you thought you were coming to work in?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
For starters, a must is a range of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist
and therapists and not these robotic tools such as the electroshock
machine and this massive distribution of psychotropic medicines to all
patients without diagnosis. There are no personal assessments of the
ailments and or diagnosis for a cure and a long term plan to get these
women to a somewhat normal life and in many cases to a full integration
back to society.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Is the broad application of
medicines to all patients without understanding the specific issues of
what each of them were brought to this house for in the first place
creating more problems?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Exactly. And really to get any of these women to a path of improvement,
there needs to be some consistent and professional counseling, they come
in and many of them could truly be healed with the proper professional
and consistent help.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Would you say any of the
nuns currently on staff are in any shape to adjust to any of the changes
you would like to see for this particular house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
No. As it stands right now they refuse to listen to suggestions,
apparently they’ve rejected ideas and or programs suggested by many
volunteers.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: As other houses operated by the
Missionaries of Charity, does Shanty Dan also have hours of prayers
where the nuns are absent from the facilities and neglect the patients?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, and they leave the women workers from the slums in charge the
same group who are medically untrained and get paid very little money
for all the work they do. What’s even more alarming is the fact that the
“evil” nun as we have resorted to calling her has begun punishing
unruly patients by administering electroshock therapy, regardless of
their condition, she has been doing this as a way to subdue them
physically which is disturbing and aggravating to say the least.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Electroshock therapy is actually being applied as punishment?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, unfortunately.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Let’s talk about a bit more about the facility. Are there any outdoor
areas or spaces where they could spend some time in the sun and receive
natural light and other necessary sensory experiences?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
There is actually a courtyard with some nice outdoor areas but
unfortunately the nuns have closed off the area to the patients. Their
main complaint is that some of the women were defecating in the grass
and that became too much work for the paid janitors and nuns to handle,
so now all the patients are confined to an inner corridor with some
windows that look out to the exterior but basically all their time is
spent indoors. They really get no natural light anymore and are
essentially confined to these interior corridors, bathrooms and dining
room.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: I think it is fair to say that the
entire facility is wrongly and inefficiently staffed, given the fact
that there are no permanent doctors, nuns with basically no medical
training and workers who are at best janitors, wouldn’t you agree?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
It would most certainly help to bring in professionals to asses all the
cases of the women currently being kept in the house. While volunteers
come in and try to help, their duties are usually limited to washing
clothes, dishes and some grooming of the patients.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Are there any washers and dryers in the house?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> No. They’ve refused to accept them.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG Do you think this house will change and or improve?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Not really. After several weeks of suggesting changes, researching,
handing over helpful documents and speaking to the nuns and workers,
I’ve come to realize they are not interested in altering their culture
of abuse and neglect.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: One would also have to
assume that the workers are trying to protect their income, however
little it is and in essence are conspirators to the medical negligence
perpetrated by these nuns on a daily basis.</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, they do pretty much whatever the nuns say including systematic
beating of the patients at the request of the nuns themselves.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
It is my understanding that nuns within this organization are shuffled
around the different houses they operate around the world, one of the
reasons being is the mounting complaints and as a way to diffuse the
public’s outrage or concern they continue to change some of them in
charge and dispatch them to different places. How long before they
resort to their malevolent practices in their new positions?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V: </strong>Well,
we have already noticed some abusive behavior by nun Benedicta who is
recently new in Shanty Dan; we’ve seen her hitting patients sometimes
and using forceful language, almost as if these patients are wild
animals. I am afraid the behavior is chronic and symptomatic of these
nuns. The same goes for the workers.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Have there been any deaths during your time there?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes. Three. One was a new lady that had arrived; she was quite small
and fragile. She seemed fine and had some difficulty walking, but other
than that she was cognitive and responsive. After I returned two days
later I found that she had passed and when I asked for the cause of
death, I was told she had a stroke but there was a lot of ambiguity on
the actual answer, especially when another volunteer felt that the
medicine she had been given was the wrong kind and thus caused her to
have a fatal and allergic reaction.<br />
<br />
Another was a 40
something year old patient, her name Maduri, I remember her clearly
because she was the very first patient I saw chained to the bed and now I
see this more and more often. She was very active and always wanted to
leave but one day I came to work and she also died.<br />
And another
patient who was ill was brought here which I thought was very strange,
one who should have certainly been brought to a hospital.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: How many patients are chained to their beds?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
At the moment from what I can tell probably half a dozen, perhaps more.
And especially those who don’t want to remain in the facility.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So patients who don’t want to stay are not allowed to leave?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> No<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Are there medical histories for each patient?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
No. There are just these cards where they sometimes make notes about
the medicines they give to the women, but nothing in detail and
certainly no diagnosis; another thing I noticed is a slew of women who
arrive from jail.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: From jail? Please explain:</strong><br />
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<strong>V:</strong>
There seems to be some sort of agreement between the Missionaries of
Charity and some of the women jails where they bring inmates who are
being released but their families don’t want them home, so they end up
here. Many if not all have absolutely no mental disabilities, so I find
this whole arrangement quite strange.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: So
perhaps for some sort of rehabilitation program? Except this is a mental
institution which doesn’t even seem to rehabilitate their own mentally
challenged patients in the first place! </strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Yes, very strange. There are no televisions or rehabilitation programs
or visual or physical activities, they just sit there all day, almost
rotting away. Also, all of the women who arrive from jail join the
distribution of pills and almost immediately become subdued. And most of
the women change their behavior completely and overnight, as if
becoming zombies. There is one in particular which is very troubling to
me, it is a pregnant patient who is constantly being given medicines,
and her mood changes drastically.<br />
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<strong>HG: These type of pills are being administered to a woman who is pregnant?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> Yes, even injections that basically knock her unconscious.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
Do we know if the one doctor who visits this home once a week has
actually researched that the medicines he is administering to this
pregnant woman won’t hurt the fetus?</strong><br />
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<strong>V:</strong> No.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG:
You also mentioned another patient who had a baby recently and the baby
was taken to an orphanage hours away from this facility, something
quite strange considering the fact that the Missionaries of Charity
operate another orphanage literally next door to the same place where
the new mother is. Why would they do this?</strong><br />
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<strong>V:</strong>
When I asked the same question to the nun in charge her answered was:
“God bless you and your compassion” and she laughed and walked off.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: Why aren’t other volunteers talking about the same things you have witnessed?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
I just don’t think they care enough. They come here for a few days and
don’t want to raise any issues. A lot of them are nice folks but they
just feel helpless at the time or rely on the fact that someone else
like you or me would speak up about it. Or worse, they think these nuns
are actually doing a good job.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: I understand
that a first rate health care facility, one that is typically found in
developed countries such as the US, Britain, ect, is not something that
is feasible or realistically possible to construct and execute in places
like Kolkata, but for an organization that receives millions and
millions of dollars in donations each year, is this the best they can
do?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong> No, not at all, at best
they are providing below minimum care. For an organization with European
influence and the massive financial support they receive, this is
shameful to say the least. There needs to be immediate and drastic
changes. The electroshock therapy is running a lot of these women’s
lives, they can never go back out into society and join a cycle of
normalcy, their memories and even simple functions have been sucked out
of them, almost if not all patients are treated like animals in a zoo.<br />
<br />
<strong>HG: What happens when you leave?</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>V:</strong>
Well, this is why I am talking about it. People like you who continue
to raise awareness about these issues are a major source of hope for
change and this why I couldn’t remain quiet any longer.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December, 17th 2010 - Kolkata, India</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS AT THE END OF THE INTERVIEW)</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sally
Warner, a registered nurse with a degree in sociology and a graduate
diploma in social work from Western Australia, began working as a
volunteer with The Missionaries of Charity in 1997. She quickly realized
there was something horribly wrong going on in all of the children
homes she had visited and volunteered in and soon after became a
dissenting voice and critic of the organization, publishing her first
book titled “Mother Teresa” in 2003 about these experiences and now
currently working on her second publication “Mother Teresa: Sainthood
Delayed” to be released in 2011. Sally had heard about my work and the
facebook campaign: STOP The Missionaries of Charity / <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com&h=RAQG-bZFn&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.stopthemissionariesofcharity.com</a>
and after finding out I too was in Kolkata, a meeting was scheduled.
The following is the transcribed audio of my hour long interview with
her on this most disheartening subject. More about Sally’s work: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sallywarner.blogspot.com&h=UAQE9TZaM&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sallywarner.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hemley Gonzalez: When did you come to Kolkata to work with the Missionaries of Charity?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sally Warner:</strong>
I’ve spent the last thirteen years volunteering and visiting several
houses operated by the Missionaries of Charity, and eventually made my
way to Kolkata in late 1999 and began volunteering in some of the houses
in early 2000. Here I have visited and volunteered in: Green Park,
Shanti Dan, Premdan, Daya Dan and Kalighat which I found quite awful, I
lasted only a few day there as I thought it was very dangerous for
volunteers with all the highly contagious cases of Tuberculosis, but I
had to see it for myself and couldn’t believe it. Speaking of Kalighat,
it is now closed for renovations which I’m sure you and your “STOP The
Missionaries of Charity” campaign had much to do with. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: How many houses would you say you’ve worked in over the last 13 years?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
The following is a timeline of the homes I’ve worked in as well as the
many others I have visited. I have spent most of my time in the children
homes, there were some I could not deal with, some of the ladies homes,
and others where patients were just sitting around and doing nothing,
often in cement floors and lying in their own excrements, people drugged
wrongly by the nuns and of course there is or should I say for now
“was” Kalighat, where anyone could just walk in and immediately see an
average of 50 men and 50 women laying in cots and basically rotting
away.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trivandrum Shishu Bhavan Sept- Dec 1997</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited Ernakulum MC Shishu Bhavan, and two other of Mother’s homes for handicapped children </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered Royapuram Chennai June-December 1998</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered Mangalore,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered Goa </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Visited and briefly volunteered in Vellore TN</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered in Mother’s children’s home Pt Blair Andaman Islands</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chennai north –home for dying and destitute Women Feb-March 1999</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited home for dying and destitute Men Jan 1999</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited home for handicapped babies Chennai north April 1999</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered July-late Dec 1999 Civil Lines Shishu Bhavan Delhi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered Home for Dying Delhi 1999</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Visited and briefly volunteered Handicapped Children’s Home New Delhi 1999</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered Green Park 2001</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered Daya Dan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered
Shishu Bhavan – upstairs babies 100+ room; downstairs children’s
room 100+ and handicapped children 40 plus- 2000-2002</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered Gandhi School 2001</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered Nirmala Hriday Home of Dying Destitute 2001</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered in Mother’s Calcutta’s Leper’s home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and volunteered for women in Prem Dan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and volunteered Home for Prisoners Asha Dan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered MT Bentley Perth home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited Mother’s establishments in Brisbane Sydney Melbourne 2006</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Volunteered twice total 3 months in Cambodia Phnom Penh 2004, 2008</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered in Mother’s Home Bellevue Johannesburg 3 months 2007</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteered in Mumbai Sept-Nov 2008 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered in Mother’s home in Durban SA 2009</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visited and briefly volunteered in Mother’s home in Pretoria SA 2009</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Returned to Kolkata and visited Daya Dan, Prem Dan and Shanti Dan, Green Pack, Shishu Bavan and Mother House</span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: What are your skills and how were you applying them in the different houses you worked in?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
I am a registered nurse and also have a degree in sociology. When I
first started volunteering in Trivandrum and noticed some strange things
going on with the kids I thought, maybe these children, since they came
from a different culture, had more tolerance to some things that
western babies do not, maybe they could tolerate hot milk, maybe they
can cope with less food because they were stronger, eventually I
realized when babies started dying that they in fact couldn’t cope with
some of the things the nuns were doing to them. I began to observe that
some of the basic educational functions were totally absent from the
house, such as daily interaction, development classes, consistent and
educational play hours and so on. I tried to get toys out of the
cupboard several times, since I believe stimulation is very important
for children which in these orphanages are not being regularly touched
or physically interacted with or let alone have anything of their own,
so I found myself grabbing even spoon, buckets, glasses, anything for
them to learn to use for themselves, but the nuns were very adamant
about allowing me to do things of this nature on a regular basis.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: What exactly were some of the things you were trying to work on while you were there?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
It is extremely difficult to make any progress with the nuns. You can
unlock the cupboards, bring a lot of puzzles and books but because the
staff isn’t trained or the nuns do not encourage them to use them, they
often just sit locked in these cabinets or given away to other people.
Once complaints started coming in from parents in Europe who were
adopting some of the children and had noticed a very low and poor
learning ability from their newly adopted son or daughter, that’s when
the nuns began to consider having some proper programs instituted. In
1999 in Delhi they reluctantly allowed a group of doctors from St.
Steven’s hospital to come in to one of the orphanages with workbooks and
materials, they then tested about thirty children for a play-therapy
program they had brought with them and tested them again after, the
average for this group was 60 DQ (development quotient), the average for
a normal child is around 100, after exposing them to toys and
educational material and giving them regular attention, 45 minutes in
the morning and 45 minutes in the afternoon, and after 3 months, they
saw the development quotient had gone up to 80. Then a year later, the
nuns had stop doing the play-therapy and dismantled the programs
altogether, and when doctors had returned to the test the children again
they found that their DQ had dropped to 55 which is clearly a delayed
development issue that could cause permanent damage for the child, so
they immediately employed a play-therapist in Delhi to try and get the
children back on the morning and afternoon programs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
2002 I returned with a play-therapy program to try and have the nuns
implement it only to discover they had canceled the therapist in Delhi
because they didn’t see a need for it. Some of the top therapists in the
country are being turned down for their services, and this is simply
unacceptable.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another case of distressful neglect of
course is Kalighat which is especially disturbing to me because as a
registered nurse in Australia I often work with geriatric cases and
others with severe handicaps that aren’t exactly dying but are going to
be staying in the nursing home for the rest of their lives. In Kalighat
patients have little or no dignity, for starters they don’t have names
they are only identified by numbers, and all the women’s heads are
shaved because of the scabies and lice which are far too common in many
of the houses. What hospital do you know is infected with lice? These
facilities are substandard at best, they rarely use warm water and with
so many fragile individuals being bathed on cement floors, their
ailments and deaths are instead accelerated.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: It seems you have been met with some indifference and resistance?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
When I started in Trivandrum trying to explain to the nuns and the
staff about the right measurements and amounts of milk babies of
different ages should have, and being basically ignored, (One of the
superior nuns said to me: “I don’t read that stuff”) and this was the
first of many instances where I would bring up medical and professional
information appropriate to India to try and help them do the correct
thing but after 13 years of being ignored this is where I draw the line.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
What would you say is the common theme of negligence in all the houses
operated by the Missionaries of Charity in which you worked in?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Anne Sebba, a British academic, who wrote a book about mother Teresa
highlighted what I think IS the central problem with the organization,
in one of the many incendiary statements Mother Teresa made over the
years was that “education causes confusion” and so she thought education
was unnecessary, and the prime virtue for the nuns within the
organization was obedience, and instructed her followers to believe that
if they were obedient, anything else they did was OK.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With
this in mind, going through some of the physiological and operational
aspects I would say these nuns have followed instruction quite well. And
here are some of the details that repeated themselves far too often in
homes across India and other continents:</span><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Donations being locked up, rarely used or plainly given to people who they were not intended for.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local
staffed being overworked and underpaid (In India it is common to employ
people to watch over babies and perform a lot of the cleaning and
feeding duties for up to 14 hours each time for only $30 rupees a day)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Milk products consistently being wrongly administered to babies and toddlers and in some cases causing death</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Insufficient
and untrained staff looking over babies and children (Over 100 in a
single room at times, with babies under 12 months of age who require a
lot of attention)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Questionable food, or brown food as you will see in the pictures below</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malnutrition cases in children where the stomach blows up and the limbs get very thin and the hair falls out AKA Marasmus.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children
who are handicapped, particularly blind children, even to this day in
Varkala and Mumbai, they are not given any proper education or assigned
any person who could teach them any language and as they grow older they
become more and more isolated and after certain years of age, they will
not learn to speak at all.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nuns in all houses begin their
day with prayers and interrupt what would be a normal schedule in any
medical facility in the middle of the day, diapering for hours for more
prayers and other religious functions, leaving untrained and
insufficient staff to cover them in them in their absence.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dangerous
environments, with dangerous playground equipment and dangerous stairs
where children could easily fall through and kill themselves.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No
one ever sees what happens after “volunteer” hours as volunteers must
leave all the premises. I was able to stay longer periods of time and
see what happens when the nuns go away and the people who are managing
the place are certainly not the nuns. If you happen to cruise by at
lunch time you will find only the staff. I stopped by one of the houses
in Christmas day 1999 at about lunch time, and in this particular house
there were about 120 babies upstairs and I was the only person in the
whole building, so you had babies crying, stuck in cots and in south
Africa you often had babies falling out of their cots and onto a cement
floor and in Chennai they often fell out too, damaging their heads.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People doing burn dresses when they didn’t know how, not using proper medication to stop pain, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paralyzed patients dying of suffocation after being improperly fed by volunteers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteers who complain being kicked out.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medical
professionals being turned away or even being kicked out of some of the
homes when they spoke up about the medical negligence or tried to
institute proper and ongoing medical care.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malaria a case in
point where the nuns in the house in Chennai patently refused to use
fans or mosquito nets, by the time they were forced to use them by some
of the local donors, it was too late for several babies.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Typhoid fever, when I was in Mumbai was a problem in 2008 and 2010.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children
not drinking enough water, as it isn’t consistently distributed and
since many of them aren’t able to communicate I often saw children
drinking water from toilets resulting in more diseases.</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: So, you work primarily with children? It seems to be your central focus.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Yes, initially I was interested in adopting a child, but the
Missionaries of Charity do not adopt children to Australia because of
Mother Teresa’s views on contraceptive use, and I’ve had nuns beg me to
try and stop abortions in Australia, something I found rather strange
considering they don’t respect me or my opinion in any other areas, and
for them to come up to me and ask me to try and change the abortion laws
in Australia is rather bizarre.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: I’m curious, how would they expect you to change the abortion laws for an entire country?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
If people are so silly as to believe asking away to random citizens can
accomplish this, I would say this is indicative of the kind of
relationship they keep with the real world. I know they have homes in
Australia, maybe that’s the prime purpose of the homes there.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
What brought you to work with the missionaries of charity, starting
back in 1997 and after seeing everything you’ve described thus far, why
have you remained a volunteer with them?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
I came to adopt a child in Trivandrum, and I couldn’t do it because of
the organization’s view on abortion, and they shy away from countries in
which such is legal as a way of punishing their laws if you will which
is insane to say the least. So I spent time with babies whom I really
enjoy and I found it really distressing because so many of them were
dying of preventable causes. I actually and stupidly thought they would
surely change but of course they didn’t and when I reached Kolkata also
found more volunteers who too had tried to change things but were
ignored and even kicked out of the organization. For example, I met a
Russian girl in 2000 who said I should protest, and so I said, yes,
let’s do that and she backed out fearing of not being allowed to
volunteer in the future. So there are a lot of volunteers who do not
agree with these practices but don’t want to lose the opportunity to
continue to return to these homes.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: So, knowing
that this negligence was not an act of ignorance but rather an
orchestrated and consistent behavior of these nuns, why then do you keep
retuning to volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Perhaps because of my background, as I am adopted myself, I didn’t know
my age, who my biological parents were, I was legally blind up to the
age of 14 when I was able to get glasses, I have more empathy for these
children than most people and I felt really guilty about it, so now that
I’ve come forward, I am trying to raise consciousness, and back in 2000
there weren’t many dissenting voices. Others like Aroup Chatterjee, and
Christopher Hitchens were the lone rangers and I eventually got some
volunteers to write some letters to nun Nirmala, the then head of the
organization about the usual complaints but that was pretty much it and
of course nothing came of it. And now people like you who in recent
years have been able to restart the dialogue and conversation about the
ongoing negligence, perhaps there is some hope that things will improve
or change.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Do you have any knowledge of the financial structure of the MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
This is perhaps one of the most secretive areas of the organization. I
know that Nirmala, the former head nun has been reported in the paper
saying that since Mother Teresa died the donations have actually gone up
and at that time Reuters and Anne Sebba had also placed the figures at
about 50 million USD coming in each year. I also met an ex-missionaries
of charity and wrote down what she had to say, “laks of rupees in
donations come in through Mumbai every day”, she had also said
containers filled with supplies, clothes and equipment are often
arriving in Kolkata from several countries including Singapore and never
seeing the equipment being used or delivered at the homes but instead
she had seen trucks taking away the donated clothes and various other
products to local markets where these items were sold as “second-hand
mother Teresa clothes, good quality” and so on, as well as second hand
toys being sold on the sidewalks of Chorengee road.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
can’t imagine what the donors would feel if they knew this is how their
donations are ending up. Also, Catholic Aid sends bulgur wheat and the
Missionaries of Charity uses it frequently, which is not a popular grain
here, one of the workers was able to take some away with him, and I was
able to personally examine it and it was just awful. On Shishu Bhavan
there actually is a store where they sell donated milk and I was able to
buy some myself outside the facility.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Why
would an organization which receives millions of dollars in donations
have to sell items donated to help people actually held in these houses?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well,
I don’t really know but when Missionaries of Charity are running homes
(and they’ve got about 710 properties) I suppose one of the reasons
might be how they choose to cover some of the organization’s internal
expenses. For example, a few years back I visited the two homes in
Australia and one of the nuns was arranging a flight to Sydney for a
retreat, quite an expensive jaunt, another time the pope was going to be
in Sydney and they were just pecking to flight there, it was about 5
nuns and when you start to figure the cost it can add up. And people
definitely donate, I’ve been at Shishu Bhavan working and seen visitors
come in and stare at the metal cots packed with babies, no toys, no
books or educational posters, and it creates a very compelling picture.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Shishu Bhavan, this is the same house that receives thousands of toys and boxes and boxes of educational material each year?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Oh sure, even I have personally brought Kilos and Kilos of toys and
they are never around when I’ve returned to work in the houses. I don’t
know what happens to them, they are there one day and the next day they
aren’t there anymore! You have to be there every day and watch the
mysterious disappearance of all of these items, in Delhi they had many
good toys donated by wealthy Indians and they either kept them locked up
or gave them away.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: You’ve had sometime to
speak to the nuns who are in charge about the negligence that you have
witnessed and the way some of the health issues are handled, you’ve
obviously tried to improve some of the conditions even. What has been
the general reaction of the women who run this organization when you
presented them with logical and viable options to change their
practices?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong> I have spoken to
Nirmala when she was the general nun in charge 10-12 times, and sadly it
is completely futile. When I brought the play-therapy program, the nuns
were really offended and refused to do anything, the fact remains that
some of them are in a very confused state, for instance, the head of
Shishu Bhavan once received a “play-way” booklet I had obtained from the
Loreto School which was a simple and effective way to teach children
through play, but because of the organization’s stance on education, the
nuns were unable to implement and therefore rejected it. I got a hold
of an internal publication, a handbook on how to deal with handicapped
children, and they do nothing of these rules, I looked through them in
detail and it was a rather confusing program; unlike the play-therapy
documents I had obtained from the Delhi pediatricians which were all
very clearly detailed.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Speaking of the issue
of poverty, it seems that basically they have ignored several outcries
for change and really have no interest in improving the conditions of
their homes and the way the operate, so what exactly is the purpose of
the Missionaries of Charity?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Mother Teresa wanted wholehearted free service to the poorer of the
poor because she thought these were people who didn’t know “jesus” so
her primary focus was really to get them to know her belief, and in many
cases die a “beautiful” death so you have babies who were dying, for
example in Chennai and the nuns would say things like, “better they go
to god” so you don’t know what to say to that when the cause of death
was lack of food or poor hygienic conditions.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
Why haven’t donors been made aware of these practices? You would have to
think any rational donor, regardless of his or her belief, if they
understood what really goes on with their donation that these are
absolutely unacceptable practices?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
It’s really hard to say because clearly children are not being tended
to or educated properly, I took a lot of people to Mumbai when I was
there to have a look and people cried, some people were quite disturbed
by what they saw and they didn’t know what to think. I have been telling
people for years to not give money to Kalighat, it will not help the
men and women lying on the floor, but people completely ignored me and
when they went there they were so distressed by the conditions that they
couldn’t help themselves and gave money anyway, because they really
believed that their money is going to improve the conditions.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
This seems to be a common practice with the Missionaries of Charity;
they have these homes which are just in dismal conditions and almost as a
museum to elicit donations from the gullibility or compassion of those
who visit the houses. Isn’t it obvious what’s happening here?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
It has been written by Indian writers that of course if you got poor
conditions then people are more liable to give money, so I was probably
silly too, I thought if I brought stuff it would help, one time I had
toys for every kid in one home but the nuns did not want to give a toy
to everyone, and I couldn’t understand why. Weather is jealousy, or
whatever, I don’t know, but they wouldn’t do it. And I suppose it’s hard
to imagine people are so evil, and I suppose that’s what others think,
you just can’t imagine that people could be this heartless but I’ve
personally have seen it.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: There is definitely a
blatant separation of social classes here in India, the caste being a
case in point. Would you say a lot of these same issues exist in some of
the other countries you’ve visited and worked in?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Is generally poverty elsewhere, say in Johannesburg the conditions are
slightly better because the laws are different, and I remember a local
NGO which was trying to organize programs to help them function more as
an educational center, confided in me that children looked after by the
Missionaries of Charity were by far the most deprived children in
Johannesburg and I would have to say after visiting several different
homes in different continents, that this is true. I have visited homes
in India, and the ones that are adopting children away are perhaps a bit
higher in quality since parents from develop nations would seriously
question issues of malnutrition and other diseases that are easily
treatable.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: I think is fair to say that it is
pretty costly and difficult for the average person who wants to be a
volunteer to get to some of these remote and faraway places to actually
help and see for themselves what goes on. You are one among many
dissenting voices that have actually taken the leap of cost if you will,
what will it take for voices like yours, voices like mine to be heard,
taken seriously and used to hold these people accountable?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
I guess it has to be a numbers game. People here in Kolkata have said
it has to do with the government, and when it changes some changes may
come as the current one is holding it back. A good example is the
dilemma of washing machines in South Africa, people donating washing
machines and the nuns rejecting them, in India it might be a bit
different as it is still common practice to wash by hands but in South
Africa development has reached farther. People try, but how much can you
do? Here in West Bengal government officials flat out told me: “what
can we do to stop the Missionaries of Charity from torturing a few
babies?” In 1965 the organization’s financial operation was taken over
by the Vatican directly and not the local bishops or archediosis, so
talking to the local “superiors” has absolutely no effect whatsoever.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
So even within the exclusive channels of the religious structure which
this organization is governed by you really don’t get anywhere do you?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
No. I took the issues to father Huart and Father Abello both Jesuits
who had been involved with Mother Teresa and the Missionary of Charity
for a long time, as well as others Jesuits who are now dead. Sometimes I
don’t think they knew what was going on. Father Le Joly quite a nice
guy who has written several books as well, when I met him he was half
deaf and legally blind, he couldn’t really see what was going on, can’t
blame him, he was in his 90’s. Father Huart who released mother Teresa’s
private letters for the book “Come Be My Light” from the archbishop
when he died, (letters which mother Teresa expressively wanted
destroyed, obviously they were not) had spoken to me several times after
I gave him a copy of my first book and refused to do anything about it,
and said to me: “what do you expect me to do, take six months off and
take a look at the missionaries of charity?” and I said, well, YES! But
the answer was obviously no. Also father Abello, who I too gave a copy
of my first book said he wouldn’t read it until I would republish it
using his views on contraception. I also met the curator of the mother
Teresa letters’ book and tried to get him to go and have a look at what
was happening at Shishu Bhavan which is literally a two minute walk from
the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity and he was not
interested. And last but not least I too met the bishop of Kolkata when
Mother Teresa was alive who had also read my book and practically
slammed the door on me but not before saying “It doesn’t matter, as long
as the donations don’t stop coming in”</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: I’ve
actually read “Come Be My Light” and I must say it reads like the work
of a deeply and mentally disturbed individual, and it was quite shocking
that the book was released by the Missionaries of Charity themselves,
but after further inspection it was evident that the move to publish it
from inside the organization was nothing less than an attempt to soften
the blow and the severity of the content.</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
That’s correct. Father Huart who had written several articles for
theological publications had pretty much admitted there was a strategy
to make mother Teresa seem as charismatic as St. Teresa de Avila who had
the same kind of mental problems, not being able to find the particular
god of her particular religion and the torment and agony people suffer
from these episodes of what many doctors may consider to be mild to
severe cases of schizophrenia.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Would you say
it is time for the world to revise and review the image that has been
created about Mother Teresa and the actual work that her organization
does?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong> People like
Christopher Hitchens who once said she was a saint for sinners, in this
case sinners being some of the rich folks in our world who find it
convenient to feel good about their deeds through these channels. And it
is convenient for the catholic church, who came forward many years ago
and expressed it needed an American saint, a figure that could escalate
donations worldwide, and mother Teresa, although Albanian and an Indian
citizen, in 1996 was granted honorary U.S citizenship, so they are
trying to do all they can to continue to have donations flow through
which incidentally have dropped off with the pedophile and child rape
crisis of recent years.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: The Vatican is in fact
the parent company of the Missionaries of Charity which is also the
same religious organization that has paid $2.9+ billion dollars since
the 1950’s in court settlements for the child rape and abuse epidemic it
is facing, so how do we know that many of the donations sent to the
Missionaries of Charity have not been used for this purpose?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
Almost all the money the Missionaries of Charity receive goes to Rome,
but it is next to impossible to track it because they have refused to
publish how much money they’ve collected since starting operations in
1952. The Catholic Church is trying to increase attendance and
collections at all their churches. So the money for the thousands of
settlements and court cases certainly had to come from somewhere.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG:
Given everything we know about the missionaries of charity and their
operation, it begs the question, where is all the money they have taken
and continue to take in each year going to?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
My toys went unaccounted for, the moment I left them at their doors,
and these are just toys, so imagine what happens with money. I witnessed
so many volunteers and visitors coming into the homes through the years
and just handing over money, and these are the ones who can physically
get to some of these place, so try to imagine what the mail room might
look like.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: What is next for Sally Warner?</span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
While I’m in Kolkata for the next two weeks, I am looking forward to
printing enough copies of my new book and hope it will raise some
awareness and achieve some changes. Without the necessary changes,
people will continue to suffer conditions which amount to a human rights
violation.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>HG: After everything we've come to know about the Missionaries of Charity, i</strong><strong>s change actually possible</strong><strong>?</strong></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
I suppose there are some changes but not necessarily taking place at
the Missionaries of Charity. It appears that people are being able to
adopt children much easier and from many more channels without having to
go through the missionaries of charity, so they could stop the whole
program altogether, but you never know with these people. Today, they
continue to misdiagnose and mistreat people with diseases that otherwise
could be cured and preventable, so if they keep kicking people out on
the streets only to have them return a month later, this endless cycle
of senseless “help” will continue. It is very scary to think they are
anything but responsible, I’ve seen their so called medical books and
rarely do patients have names, often they are just numbers, so it is
very difficult to understand who comes, who goes, there are no medical
histories. And in places like Kalighat, as you know, the death
certificates are all made up and the people who sign them aren’t
doctors, and of course some of the burial methods which are directly
against the cultural traditions of the deceased, and so on. So no,
change is a very scary proposition for them and therefore I don’t see it
happening anytime soon.</span><br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HG: Would it be fair to
say that the world would be better off without the Missionaries of
Charity? Surely there are many other organizations doing great work
while conducting themselves with accountability and in search of
solutions to the question of poverty. </span></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>SW:</strong>
I actually believe the Missionaries of Charity are detrimental to
progress, because people come here, volunteer and return home with a
picture of substandard conditions for those the Missionaries of Charity
claim to help which don’t have to be, this is 2010, it was probably the
reality of the 1950’s when India had gained its independence and it was
struggling in all fronts but for me the people living on the streets,
the children anyhow, have a real chance at learning to read, write and
learn new skills which they certainly don’t at the Missionaries of
Charity. Mother Teresa believed poverty was good for poor people and the
world, she once said poverty is my mother and suffering is joy but one
has to wonder how much of this she actually believed. She once also said
she wanted to die in Kalighat, but she didn’t. She died surrounded by
machinery and some of the best care money can provide, unlike the
thousands of women and men who died at the hands of her nuns without
painkillers or any of the other comforts she herself enjoyed.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hemley
Gonzalez: I want to thank you for your time and strength to continue to
speak up about this. You have certainly echoed some of what I have been
saying for the last two years and have shed new light on many more
cases of abuse in many of the different homes operated by the
Missionaries of Charity. And you have clearly confirmed what I have been
alluding to in my work, which is that this was not isolated to one
particular house but rather, it seems to be a rampant and inherent
negligence throughout the organization, once again, THANK YOU and it has
been a pleasure meeting you.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sally Warner</strong>, Author / <a href="http://www.sallywarner.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sallywarner.blogspot.com</a> Interviewed by:</span><br />
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-91183657900473225102009-02-15T00:00:00.000-08:002013-07-22T23:21:54.882-07:00Mother Teresa's 'Home of The Dying' - A Poverty Petting Zoo <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">These women are the ones in charge of the home of the dying in the neighborhood of Kalighat in Calcutta, their names are Glenda (the woman sited on the right) and Anila (standing left), they make the decision of care for patients, food administration, clothing and other provisions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">They consistently refuse ideas to improve conditions in the home, as I and many other volunteers suggested the use o</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">f modern equipment to sanitize clothes, high capacity water heaters to bathe women and men with hot water instead of the cold water we're forced to use even in winter, clean syringes, simple medical charts for long term patients and a myriad of other details that would save the lives of those whose diseases go undiagnosed because these two particular women refuse to implement changes. They are often crude, harsh and short with some of the patients and even volunteers, the same who now do the bulk of the work while their sedentary bodies sit and watch over the spectacle that is this house of illusions.<br /><br />This is troubling to say the least, specially since the organization does not report how much money they receive in donations each year and how such funds are used. Some experts place the figure of collected donations in the MILLIONS each year. Where exactly is all the money?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">These women are the ones in charge of the home of the dying in the neighborhood of Kalighat in Calcutta, their names are Glenda (the woman sited on the right) and Anila (standing left), they make the decision of care for patients, food administration, clothing and other provisions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">They consistently refuse ideas to improve conditions in the home, as I and many other volunteers suggested the use o</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">f modern equipment to sanitize clothes, high capacity water heaters to bathe women and men with hot water instead of the cold water we're forced to use even in winter, clean syringes, simple medical charts for long term patients and a myriad of other details that would save the lives of those whose diseases go undiagnosed because these two particular women refuse to implement changes. They are often crude, harsh and short with some of the patients and even volunteers, the same who now do the bulk of the work while their sedentary bodies sit and watch over the spectacle that is this house of illusions.<br /><br />This is troubling to say the least, specially since the organization does not report how much money they receive in donations each year and how such funds are used. Some experts place the figure of collected donations in the MILLIONS each year. Where exactly is all the money?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">This is troubling to say the least, specially since the organization does not report how much money they receive in donations each year and how such funds are used. Some experts place the figure of collected donations in the MILLIONS each year. Where exactly is all the money?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">This patient died a few days after this picture was taken, his condition never properly diagnosed (no blood samples taken and examined, nor a proper regiment of medicines applied).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">Aside from the monstrous medical negligence they are subjected to, patients at the home of the dying in Kalighat are not given the opportunity to better themselves, learn a new craft or work on rehabilitating themselve</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">s back to society. This is a macabre display of people suffering from often curable or treatable diseases; and it is intended to shock visitors (often resulting in higher donations) while portraying a very inaccurate picture of poverty in Calcutta today.<br /><br />Where are the millions of dollars you receive in donations each year Missionaries of Charity, and how are you really using them?</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">This patient died a few days after this picture was taken, his condition never properly diagnosed (no blood samples taken and examined, nor a proper regiment of medicines applied).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">Aside from the monstrous medical negligence they are subjected to, patients at the home of the dying in Kalighat are not given the opportunity to better themselves, learn a new craft or work on rehabilitating themselve</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">s back to society. This is a macabre display of people suffering from often curable or treatable diseases; and it is intended to shock visitors (often resulting in higher donations) while portraying a very inaccurate picture of poverty in Calcutta today.<br /><br />Where are the millions of dollars you receive in donations each year Missionaries of Charity, and how are you really using them?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Aside from the monstrous medical negligence they are subjected to, patients at the home of the dying in Kalighat are not given the opportunity to better themselves, learn a new craft or work on rehabilitating themselve</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">s back to society. This is a macabre display of people suffering from often curable or treatable diseases; and it is intended to shock visitors (often resulting in higher donations) while portraying a very inaccurate picture of poverty in Calcutta today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Where are the millions of dollars you receive in donations each year Missionaries of Charity, and how are you really using them?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">This is the women's shower at the home of the dying in Kalighat, India operated by the Missionaries of Charity. Never mind the fact that none of the patients are Christian nor that there is rarely hot water (it gets quite cold in the winter months in Calcutta). Where are the millions which the Missionaries of Charity collect every year? They are certainly not being spent on minimally decent lavatories.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">Here several men are bathed with buckets of cold water in the early hours of the morning each day, regardless of the weather outside. Another horrifying room at the home of the dying in Kalighat, India operated by the Missionaries of Charity. Where are the millions which the Missionaries of Charity collect every year? They are certainly not being spent on minimally decent lavatories.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">Here several men are bathed with buckets of cold water in the early hours of the morning each day, regardless of the weather outside. Another horrifying room at the home of the dying in Kalighat, India operated by the Missionaries of Charity. Where are the millions which the Missionaries of Charity collect every year? They are certainly not being spent on minimally decent lavatories.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px; text-align: left;">This is one of the men's bathroom inside The home of the dying in the neighborhood of Kalighat in Calcutta, India. No shred of decency is afforded to the patients. How are the millions of dollars collected yearly by the Missionaries being used exactly?</span></td></tr>
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Hemley Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484924880046600778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228815835272131442.post-39888307298163926732009-02-01T00:00:00.000-08:002013-07-22T22:30:43.109-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;">I worked as a volunteer in one of Mother Teresa’s homes for the poor in Calcutta, India for a period of two months in 2008. I was shocked to discover the horrifically negligent manner in which this charity operates and the direct contradiction of the public’s general understanding of their work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;">Workers wash needles under tap water and then reuse them. Medicine and other vital items are stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients. Volunteers with little or no training carry out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of tuberculosis and other life threatening illnesses. The individuals who operate the charity refuse to accept and implement medical equipment and machinery that would safely automate processes and save lives.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />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.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />Not once in its sixty-year history, have the Missionaries of Charity reported the total amount of funds they’ve collected 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 over 450 homes and maintains an average of 4,000 workers while consistently failing to provide statistics on the efficacy of their work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />Standing firm against planned parenthood, modernization of equipment, and a myriad of other solution-based initiatives, Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor but rather a promoter of poverty.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />It was Mother Teresa’s own admission during an interview that more than 23,000 people had died in the halls of the particular home I had worked in; as if boasting at the figure and missing entirely the point of the enormous compilation of unnecessary deaths.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />Mother Teresa also repeatedly admitted that she was not a social worker, and her followers continue to assert the same to this day. 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, a seriously troubling statement to say the least.<br /><br />I have created this group and other projects to denounce the Missionaries of Charity and their work while educating unsuspecting donors about how their well-intended donations are misused on a daily basis.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />Is this a page for atheists? No. Is it a page for people who are disgusted by what this charity does in the name of religion. Regardless of your personal beliefs; adoration of suffering, medical negligence and financial fraud are human right violations.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /><br />Continuing to air these facts about Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and similar organizations will help point donors everywhere in the world to responsible, accountable and transparent organizations instead... organizations that are truly working to empower men, women and children to overcome poverty.<br /><br /><br />If you would like to learn more about me and my work please visit:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.hemley.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.hemley.com/</a><br /><br /><br />Thank you for your support,<br /><br />STOP The Missionaries of Charity<br />Hemley Gonzalez</span></span><br />
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