1. She supported oppressive governments.
Mother Teresa associated herself with many shady individuals during her life, including Jean-Claude and Michelle Duvalier, who ruled Haiti as a police state from 1971 through 1986. She laid a wreath of flowers on the tomb of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who was infamous for suppressing religion in Albania.
2. She was out for herself.
In contrast to all of the modesty and humility which Teresa claimed to promote, all 500 of the convents around the world which she opened bear her order’s name. While the poor suffered in her clinics, she traveled the globe, receiving awards, meeting with leaders and accepting millions of dollars.
3. She misdirected donations.
Even with donations specifically earmarked for charitable purposes, Teresa was known to transfer these funds to the Vatican Bank for general use. More suspiciously, Mother Teresa never disclosed her order’s finances except that which was required by law.
4. She offered lackluster medical care.
Volunteers at Teresa’s clinics have testified to the inadequate care provided to those who were dying. Despite receiving millions of dollars in donations, Teresa rarely kept her clinics up to date, and they lacked everything but the most simple care.
5. She accepted money from swindlers.
While she apparently did not spend adequate resources on her hospitals, Teresa was closely tied to financier Charles Keating, who gave her $1.25 million before being convicted for his role in the savings and loan scandal. Teresa later wrote a letter testifying to Keating’s good character, and never returned the money she had received.
6. She used her stature to push her radical social agenda.
Although Teresa insisted that her mission was apolitical, she traveled around the world to lobby against the legality of contraception and divorce. When the International Health Organization honored Teresa in 1989, she called AIDS a “just retribution for improper sexual conduct.”
7. She favored religious conversion over tangible aid.
Despite having a reputation of wanting to relieve pain and suffering, Teresa once said, “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.” Clearly, she chose to practice her ideology more stringently than compassion.
8. She was a hypocrite.
For as much as Teresa praised the suffering through which her patients endured as a sign of love from God, she herself was treated in the finest clinics and hospitals. One must wonder why she never stayed in one of her own clinics, or practiced the grandiose ideas which she so often espoused.
9. She sided with those in power and against the individual.
Teresa spent a lot of her time supporting radical forces like the Nicaraguan contras, a group which unleashed death squads in an attempt to conquer the country. She also often made appearances alongside world leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in an apparent attempt to sway policy.
10. She attempted to impose her own values on foreign countries.
By placing herself on a pedestal, Teresa apparently thought herself an “anointed one” who had the authority to prescribe to poor countries what was for their own good. Rather than shifting the focus to helping the poor while maintaining their own cultural differences, Teresa needlessly tried to “westernize” them as much as possible.