For nine years Susan Shields worked as a devoted Catholic Sister, working for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. When finally becoming fed-up in 1989, she left Mother Teresa in disgust over the misuse of millions in charitable donations that never got to their destination -- the poor and afflicted.
Shields story was recently sent to the Arctic Beacon, as printed in the Free Inquiry Magazine, revealing how Mother Teresa really turned a blind eye to the poor while millions of dollars in donations are still sitting in Vatican bank accounts.
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I can't help but read Ms. Shields' complaints and feel that somehow she woefully missed the point somewhere along the line.
From the article, "We lived a simple life, bare of all superfluities. We had three sets of clothes, which we mended until the material was too rotten to patch anymore. We washed our own clothes by hand. The never-ending piles of sheets and towels from our night shelter for the homeless we washed by hand, too. Our bathing was accomplished with only one bucket of water. Dental and medical checkups were seen as an unnecessary luxury."
That reminds me of an old joke:
A man joins a band of monks and swears a vow of silence. Every ten years each monk is allowed to go before the Abbot and say two words.
After ten years go by the monk goes before the Abbot and states simply, "bed hard".
Another ten years go by and his time has come to address the Abbot again. This time he says, "shower cold".
Yet another ten years go by and he appears before the Abbot and clearly exclaims, "food bad".
After forty years he has another shot at expressing his feelings. This time he says, in no uncertain terms, "I quit". To which the Abbot replies, "I'm not surprised... you've done nothing but complain since you got here".
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