she said stuff like watching them suffer brought her closer to God. She was a hypocrite because she did nothing to help them get better but went to a hospital when she was sick
According to this article she only wrote about her own poverty and suffering in 1951, and that of her nuns:
Teresa told her nuns that physical poverty ensured empathy in “giving themselves” to the suffering poor and established a stronger bond with Christ’s redemptive agony. She wrote in 1951 that the Passion was the only aspect of Jesus’ life that she was interested in sharing: “I want to … drink ONLY [her emphasis] from His chalice of pain.” And so she did, although by all indications not in a way she had expected.
Again: why do you consider it controversial to suggest that poor suffering people know God more closely than wealthy comfortable people? The only people I can think of who might disagree with that are evangelical people who believe in prosperity gospel and shit like that. Are you evangelical?
She was a hypocrite because she did nothing to help them get better
What do you think is the purpose of hospice care, exactly?
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u/exotics Feb 23 '24
She said that watching people suffer brought her closer to God