Received a lot of donations but didn't spend them to better the lives of the people she cared.

I think she was just another charlatan.

My father thought she was the best thing since sliced bread. The more I read about her, the more I was appalled at her actions. Yes, she "helped" the poor; however she didn't do it because she thought the poor needed help. She did it to elevate her place in heaven and to hell with how she treated the people of Earth as they were expendable.

She promoted her church for selfish gains. She was not a good person but an apologist for the Catholic Church. Christopher Hitchens "The Missionary Position". was a good starter expose.

I think she is cool. Showing love and concern for people is cool.

Kinky Friedman, who refers to himself as a texan jew, and jokes about how 'they don't make jews like jesus anymore', is as funny as a fat spider, but I wonder if others think he is beeing disrespectful of his religion. As long as he can be as flippant as that, he's got my 'cool' vote.

She thinks poverty is a blessing and lived in luxury. She's as much a saint as Margret Thatcher is an emotional Iron woman.

Then the catholic church is a cult, no?

Any friend of Batman is a friend of mine.

A question like this comes from a person looking for one side of said person. There's yin side to us, there's a yang side to us. Yeah she did a lot of good, but she had an evil side to her that let her persue a life of giving.

Thanks all for the answers because it was a fluffy piece on tv and on PBS too. Who can we trust when it comes to news? Times they sure changed...

When I see school displays on the wonder mother theresa it makes my stomach sick. She was an example of a vile human being intent of advancing catholisism - she didn't give a shit about the poor.

I've heard some pretty horrible things about the way children in her care were actually treated, but who knows what's true? She was certainly an international personality so I doubt she spent much of her time directly involved in caring for anyone.

She was an absolutely disgusting human being. Her delusional beliefs led to the poorest and most vulnerable people in her care suffering terribly while she jetted around the world hob-nobbing with dictators.
I wish hell existed so she could be rotting there.

Even hitler has good stuff... he have a program that all germans will give 6 months of their life after secondary school to work for the benefit of the government. Whatever was needed you will do and the pay was minimal but it has a great number of benefits like free movie theaters, food, etc. During that time you were treated as a hero.... Imagine that program in america, no exclusions for the rich.... EVERYBODY. And mother theresa she just worked for the most poor, you can find many heroes like that in church and out of church.

she was a monster that gave people false hope while taking joy in watching the suffering of people dying from illnesses easily treated with modern medicine. The 'patients' of her hospice were denied access to their families and even basic medical care while they died. Her worship of death and suffering made her into a sadistic cult leader who hid behind the larger Catholic church.