--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
This article, Mother Teresa, does cry out for
segregation of critical views
from positive views as we seem rather mean spirited
to be bringing up all
the uncomfortable facts (even God must have been
unaware of them or she
would never have been authorized to perform
miracles) just as the Catholic
community is celebrating a new saint. But I note the
John Paul Jones
article effectively debunks an American secular
saint.
It may be that Eriks got an anti-Catholic gripe going
--who doesnt. But Fred is exactly right --and the
issue is: Who is Mother Teresa? Is she on her way to
being a saint, or a contemporary person, for whom an
encyclopedia article can write up all kinds of dirt on
her.
We can also ask: "Who *was* Mother Teresa?" but this
is the controversy --Catholics think of her as being
an "is" while non-Catholics will think of her as a
"was."
Which takes precedence? Neither. This is an
encyclopedia -- we use [[news style]] and that neutral
point of view thing...
Its quite easy to simply describe her humanist
accomplishments in a *secular, *encyclopedic, way --
and then to treat how Catholics revere her, and others
hate her --presumably for her supposedly making the
Catholic Church look good somewhat --(we can't have
that.)
~S~
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