How is Mother Teresa connected to Jeffrey Epstein?

@LeopoldBloom I see. It has occurred to me that she seems to have slipped from public memory, perhaps because she wasn't what she wanted us all to think she was.

I wonder what her motives were, but if she was as bad as that, didn't the Church investigate?

@ArishMell As far as I can tell, her motives were based on an enjoyment of making other people suffer.

The church never investigated her - why should they? She was great advertising. None of this was widely known while she was alive. She was admired not just by conservatives, but by Hollywood liberals. And after her death, the church fast-tracked her canonization.

Keep in mind that this was the same church that covered up child sex abuse for decades. They would have covered up MT's activities too.

@LeopoldBloom Oh yes, the Vatican has an awful history.

Only yesterday we heard on the News that a mass-grave has been found in Canada, containing the victims of a Catholic-run boarding-school that closed only fairly recently but had originally been part of a government scheme to assimilate indigenous people into "Canadian" society (i.e. that of the descendants of European settlers).

In Eire, and I think Ulster, the Church was responsible for the dreadful Magdelan Laundries, basically slave-labour homes for poor womem especially if pregnant out of wedlock. The nuns who ran these had no idea how to look after babies and children born there, even if any of them cared, and the victims who died were buried without any grave-marker.

It was also implicit in the Swiss anti-Romany progrom of the 1940s-60, wgich worked by kidnapping the children and farming them out for adoption under new names, via Church-run orphanages, to approved Swiss families. Their parents and grandparents were allowed to live on, either emigrating or eventually dying naturally.

The Catholic Church, some Protestant church organisations and the children's home Dr. Barnadoes (a secular charity) at around the same time in the UK operated a government-created scheme to remove children from poverty and especially if illegitimate (held in those days itself to be as bad as the parents), and ship them off to a suppposed wonderful new life in Australia or Canada. No-one thought to ensure the emigres were looked after properly, and many were very badly treated by the orphanages then the foster-parents. The latter just used them as cheap farm labour. Some of the nuns involved would tell the children the terrible lie that their parents had died.

So I think however bad and self-serving Mother Theresa was she was still only a product and mouthpiece for a very inhumane, very backward but very wealthy institution with an utter lack of any understanding and compassion for women and children.

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Regarding how you see her reputation in America, as I'm not American and don't live there I don't fully understand your observation about "conservatives and Hollywood liberals". However I think the admiration she enjoyed was from all sides generally; at least in those countries who thought she was really was doing good.