(We just learned that at the start of her ministry she had heard the voice of Jesus and seen visions. In one, she was transported "as a little child" to Golgotha, where she stood with Mary at the foot of the cross and spoke with the dying Jesus).

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Following is a Catholic defense of Mother Teresa. My responses are in italics.

In two recent mailings attacking mother Teresa, there is a Scripture that people seem to be ignoring:

Mat 21: 28 "What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, `Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

29 And he answered, `I will not'; but afterward he repented and went.

30 And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, `I go, sir,' but did not go.

31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first."

Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Now I ask all readers, what was our comission (sic) as Christians? Jesus said "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Mat 28:19). The accusation leveled against mother Teresa is that - by not telling patrons about Jesus with her mouth - that she did not fulfill Christ's command. Yet,

ironically, through her actions she has been the reason for the conversion of more people to Christianity than all the efforts of all the people on this mailing list combined.

So, by not telling her patrons about Jesus with her mouth, it is true that Mother Teresa did not "talk the talk," the way we Pharisaically pride ourselves - but mother Teresa (like the first of the two servants in Jesus' parable) did "walk the walk," fulfilling the great commission in a way that none of us have or ever will rival. In short, when we by our actions (word or deed) have brought to Christ as many people as she...then perhaps we may pick up stones to throw at her.

The normal fundamentalist criticism concerns the "Jesus" whom Mother Teresa served. When told that her sisters could go into Yemen but that a priest would not be allowed, her comment was that without a priest they couldn't have Jesus. People who "walk the walk" but worship a Wafer God are not Christians.

Finally, I wish to note that Protestants repeat the mantra that you can tell when someone is saved by watching supernatural conversion in their lives..."good works follow their faith." But as soon as Mother Teresa fulfills that dictum with greater force than any Protestant of the 20^th century (countless conversions to Christ through her efforts, and a worldwide calling to Christ through her actions which speak louder than words), suddenly a minority of Protestants become ravenous hypocrites who consign her to hell...never mind that she had proven her salvation by the Protestant mantra of "works follow faith" and that she has brought more to Christ than themselves.

It is good for Christians to demonstrate before others that they are new creatures in Christ. However, in God's eyes, it is he who hath the Son hath life and he who hath not the Son if God hath not life. Eternal entrance into heaven depends upon God's judicial satisfaction. This is not by works of righteousness which we have done, but, as it says in Isaiah 53:11, "He shall look on the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied."

And if you - and you know who you are - still think Teresa's sins deserve your almighty and sinless judgment, then let all those without sins now pick up their stones to stone her name in effigy.

We have never had any desire to throw stones at Mother Teresa, dead or alive. But the facts of her case, since she was such a public figure, must be made known in order to warn people concerning their future judgment, not for works of righteousness which they have done, but whether or not they are washed in the Blood of the Lamb.