Mother Teresa 

Fun fact: Christopher Hitchens originally wanted to call his book calling her out "Sacred Cow" but his editor didn't let him

What’s quite funny is that she died just a few days after Princess Di, and the UK was so consumed by the aftermath of that, that Mother Teresa’s death barely registered 😂

Oh this is going to be good. I've heard that Mother Teresa is not as wholesome as her representation in west is, but I've never looked into it.

The worst part for me is that at least other people are controversial or neutral, but Theresa? She's known as the pinnacle of goodness. Absolutely gross.

Its awful how much direct harm she did to people, and is still remembered by some as a good person. Infuriating. Great Listen. ♥📻

I'm staying home from work this week because I bruised my ribs in a bike accident. Listening to this made me laugh so hard that I might as well have gone to work tbh

“It’s like Hocus Pocus but with catholics” it’s from now on my descriptor for Sister Act 😂❤

wait she died in 1997!!!??? Damn she REALLY overstayed her welcome lmao

"I stabbed Mother Theresa with an infected needle, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" Hitchens really showed how effective a journalist he was, when he decided to rip her reputation apart. He was a briliant man.

This went from "cute idea" to "my favourite podcast ever". I did make the mistake of listening to the Columbus episode before bed, comparatively this was a relaxing one.

THE WORST PART IS ME NOT KNOWING NATASHA LYONNE WAS STRAIGHT 😞😞😞

I saw the thumbnail and squealed. Then I discovered that Caelan was doing this one, and was purely delighted. LOVE.

Ironically enough, it was my very devout Catholic aunt who first mentioned the crimes of Mother Teresa in my family - simply because she didn't believe suffering itself was a gift from God (because, you know, suffering is a punishment from God according to the freaking Bible), and she is not stupid and tries to hear both sides

It was only a matter of time before you'd do an episode on her. The personification of "good Christian values", beloved by many, a symbol of compassion, but actually a monster. If she weren't real, someone would invent her as a movie villain.

Catholicism really do be out there giving people Daddy kinks what with the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, All Knowing Sky Daddy

Late to the party, but just a note; Many of the nuns in the order were also "encouraged" to take their vows of poverty and chastity *extremely* seriously. "The Turning; The Sisters who left" is a podcast about a few women who were in the order, and they also suffered quite serious abuse. It seems Mother Theresa was indiscriminate in her ideas that suffering was good/godly. She also applied that idea to her order as well as herself.

I was raised catholic (in the west ofc) so obviously I had this idea that Mother Teresa was like THE woman, yknow? So I'd ignorantly be like "Mother Theresa's so cool right?" And my mum would go "HA, no, I hate that evil woman." Funny thing is no ever explained either side to me, I was just told she was bad or she was good, no further context. Got the context now lmao I love hating accurately ❤❤❤

ok no shit Anya Ganja is such a great drag name if I don't see it at Missy B's some day I'm going to be so mad

I was having a really shitty morning, then this popped up in my feed. Getting to listen to y'all for an hour plus being reminded that Mother Teresa is dead really perked my mood up a lot! EDIT: Two minutes in and what a fucking intro. Can already tell this is going to be a great one.

How much would the Vatican have to pay you to take this down? 😂😭

Around minute 7 this whole thing just went off the rails and never got back on. I loved every minute of it. This is definitely my favorite episode so far. Thanks Witches of Stitcher!

Patron Saint of homicide lol

To all Christians/Catholics mad at this episode, just remmeber Paul to the Romans 3:8 We must not do evil even where good may come of it.

I recently watched a thing about the "eye of the needle" thing and there are some people that are trying to say a needle was the smaller door for people in the large village gate; and another group of people that say it was a CABLE through the eye of a needle... Both are wrong.

As a holiday Catholic at best, I had no idea.

She was a hateful person and her whole order and branch of religion is just monstrous. How can someone claim christianity but be so far from anything it supposedly represents.

In fairness, you would want Satan to be your banker, because that way, if you were ever overdrawn, you could murder them with no consequences. ...unless Hell ran on "Santa Clause" rules. Hm. Anyway, this was very cathartic. Good video.

KCBFJDGS the scream after caelan namedropped the hallowed corpse herself im

Okay, there are some "prosperity gospel" """"""people""""""" who claim that the eye of the needle is actually the name of a gate in Jerusalem. It isn't, but that's what they claim.

So Mother Teresa was just a serial killer? How else can we describe her deliberately inflicting harm for the sake of it and spouting nonsense about god all the while? If she where a white dude in the US, the Criminal Minds gang would have a 2 episode series finale about her.

This podcast is a ray of light (like the cancer curing miracle from mother Teresa) that brightens my week. Thank you. 💕

My religious studies teacher wanted us to learn about her life. I was asked to leave the class when i asked how much money it costs to open one hospital and howmany hospitals had been opened since raise many multiples needed for one...

I choose to believe expelling the devil from her body is what killed her. She herself was the most vile of demons

I relished listening to this episode, cause I knew that b-word was evil, but I didn't know ho evil. I had read an article about how she also tortured her nuns, basically abusing them in every way, just like a cult leader, making them subservient, cutting them off from loved ones and so on. Horrifying. I am so glad she is dead.

When talking about Mother Theresa we have to take the time period into account. All this was normal in the 17th century.

once again i cry "fuck yes" to the skies and hit play

I knew about her through Penn & Teller and Christopher Hitchens, so I knew this was going to be good.

In modern saint you have to be like, 60 years dead. There was a lot of hullabaloo in Australia about then Blessed now saint Mary Mackillop I think when Mother Theresa was sainted

OMG, Caelan I love you. Best episode of anything ever!!!!!

Grown adults not knowing who Christopher Hitchens is because he's been dead for so long makes me feel old. He spoke at my university my freshman year...😂

For the movie, we should skip over mother T and make one about the meowing nuns who wouldn't stop meowing until it got annoying enough for the local knights to come over and make them.

6:40 "started with only 12 followers" - shudder - Christ complex much? (According to Christian scriptures, Jesus of Nazareth had 12 apostles.) Raised Catholic, and felt I had to listen to this one. 😨😭 9:40 "Is there any gift greater than that?" On multiple occasions my mother has told me that the greatest gift my parents have to give me is their Catholic faith, while crying about how I don't go to mass anymore, and I refuse to answer her questions about whether my siblings and I might be atheist. It fucking HURTS that her "faith," which she talks about all the time, is more important to her than the needs of her children. Question: What was the point of hoarding all that money if M.T. couldn't take it with her when she died? I used to be a paid secular employee at a Catholic church, and people - people who were fairly clean and socially eloquent - would come in to beg for assistance, and my orders were to direct them to Catholic Charities, but they all said that Catholic Charities refused to help. Those who looked in rougher shape never came near the doors of the church, but stayed on other streets. 29:30 Fairytale Theatre is awesome!

I made the most sinister smile ever when I saw the thumbnail for this video 😈

Today was hella stressful and cooling-off with this and some knitting was perfect go to bed equilibrium

I read even a catholic devout pwerson reconciling basically with , yeah she wasnt a good person through her reputation did good, even if she was terrible which i agnwledge fullhearted. And her treatment of the sick in calcutta with disregarding anyones wellbeing and feeling better , over, living to convert, and the cruelty how she did, damn. She wasntr trying to help, only to convert on deaths bad, wizthout the care. And that the money, that she used the money she got for charity, was very cheap with comfort, but sent money to the vatical, money she got explicit for a charity cause. Bloody use it in the charity. The vatican is hella rich, thats fraudilent charity basically, giving money of it to the vatican, when you were given if, for the charity, use in in that charity. Or if not to another charity even, not the loaded and rich vatican. Hell even a local chiurch would need it probably better than the bloody loaded rich vatican. Thats less ranting how rich the vatican is, but that , the vatican really does not need donations.

It's so cool that she got fast passed to canonization but Mother Mary Lange, a nun who actually did something helpful for the communities she was in, still hasn't been canonized. But canonization is definitely apolitical y'all.

YESS I'm so excited for this one!!!!!

How the eff is Natasha Lyonne straight? She's one of the reasons I know I'm NOT! I'm devastated! Also, great episode. I knew some of these things about Mother Theresa but not all of this. Wow.

I am halfway through this episode & I am. SO. Fucking. Livid. 🌸🌸🌸

You had me at "crusty crazen Virgo"

The first time I got to know Christopher Hitchens, it was because he had written about what a piece of garbage Mother Teresa was, he never stopped talking shit about her. I think you might have been too kind to her, tbh. I think she enjoyed making people suffer, she enjoyed hurting them, like a serial killer. Her rationale that it was good for people to suffer was her justification for the enjoyment she got from controlling and hurting them. Also, maybe her exorcism was horrible? I think they're generally unpleasant and maybe more so if you're old and sick? Maybe there were some people in the church who hated her and took the chance to beat the demons out of her. One can hope, anyway. Great episode, I learned a lot even though I've read a few stories over the years. Thanks everyone!

I clicked this not realizing Caelan was a part of it, what a cool surprise

RE: jamming a camel through the eye of a needle, the prosperity doctrine people say that the "eye of the needle" refers to the city gates of some place that doesn't sound all that difficult to get a camel through.

From kindergarten to 9th grade I was went to Christian Schools (not Catholtic but some other denomination idk probs Protestant) and I rememeber I would occasionally hear about Mother Theresa. I never trusted her. She always gave me the ick even at 12 years old.

I think the day I mentioned to my mom's Catholic former friend that Mother Teresa was actually a terrible person was the day she stopped loving me like another daughter. 🙃

100 firefighters are convicted for arson each year to this day.

Aaaaah yesssss!!!! Something tells me I'm gonna thoroughly enjoy this one!

Yessssss. Excited for this.

I'm glad you all can be chill about this horrible monster, I'm just fuming.

Immediately made me laugh, first I've heard from you lovely bunch and instantly adorable and best 😂💝

Okay, so I only knew about her via the propaganda and… fucking hell, is she ever the Worst. …completely different from this podcast, which is funny and the best.

Oooh new one -yay!

omg YES I screamed when i saw the title for this one xD

1:24 jfc Caelan 🤣

It's not about helping any humans. It's about level grinding your piety stat.

Damn this is an unexpected hit

Video just got recommended to me.The initial line won me immediately so im subscribing. I know a bit about how she totally sucks, but I want to know more. An old roommate loaned me a book of her quotes, back before I knew how awful she was. I was like ohhhhh lovely this will be wonderful and inspiring like he says it is. And then I read it..I was just like ummmmmmmm these are a lot of nice sounding words that actually say nothing, this is dryer lint sold to me as protein powder.take it back. Ew

how has this channel flown under my radar

“Some atheist named Christopher Hitchens???”

29:50 FAERIE TALE THEATRE HOSTED BY SHELLEY DUVALL IS A CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE TO _ME_

That thing about firefighters sounds like a myth.

25:25 has me cackling 😂 like yes butch everyone here should be at the hospital hellooooooooo

Was a garbage human for sure.

Oh yeah, Mother T was an absolutely wretched person. I wish it was more common knowledge.

First time finding this and its awesome!!. Hoping ghandi is done or will be! *edit found it! Squeee

Natasha noooo

Wow

Delicious Dirt Feast

I grew up Catholic (have been out for a while) but I grew up not knowing anything about but practically worshipping her. Like isn't she a saint?? I would hear jokes about her being awful, in like pop media I guess, but I like actually didn't know. So of course I had to watch this. I wonder how many people who talked about her to me when I was a kid know the truth? This is really messed up.

natasha lyonne is STRAIGHT??

"you can fit so many camels through that needle" Space Needle Inspired merch when?

She was so awful, I can't believe that more people don't talk about it! Thanks for doing so ❤

Hey, Caelin & friends! I'm genuinely curious and not trying to call out anything- I fucking love the show and everything y'all are doing here and elsewhere. I wanted to frontload that as we are in the Post-Somertonist Era. So I recently saw a claim that Chris Hitchens' book was basically a hit piece with extreme bias. So I'm wondering if you used it as a source for this episode. Are your sources listed anywhere? I couldn't find them here or on Spotify. I haven't read his book, and your episode is the only detailed account I know about her, so when someone told me he was the source of people loathing her I thought of this episode & wondered if you'd share sources.

She's also looked favoritively I Japan too. She's in English text books in elementary school

Mother Theresa is proof of the strength of good PR 😅

69th like right here heyo

“White savioriest” Gonna remember that

Anyas Ganja Borgiuea? Wtf?

I hate to break it to you, but there *are* people in India who liked Mother Teresa. In 2012 they did a poll called “the Greatest Indian” where Indians voted on the best person from India & she got #5. Fun fact: a lot of other countries did similar polls. Canada chose Tommy Douglas, the father of our socialized healthcare system, the USA picked Ronald Reagan.

my god, this is awful

I think it’s extreme to conclude that Mother Teresa had evil intentions and that people should hate her. I think her vow of poverty and minimalism and self denial were part of her approach to God. Hospitals give morphine or fentanyl etc to suffering or dying people to sedate them from the pain. That’s what our society considers humane. For others prayer and awareness through the process is reality and brings one closer to God. I personally don’t believe God wants us to suffer for the sake of suffering but that suffering sometimes is part of life and sometimes can lead to growth and wisdom. My understanding is that Mother Teresa felt pretty abandoned by the church in some ways and she dedicated her whole life to the people and was suffering and isolated as well. I don’t care that some so called Christians hate LGBTQIA because they are only displaying their deep ignorance. LGBTQIA suffer and it sucks but it makes us wiser. I think that present day foster home facilities led by evidence based approaches to child psychology can be viewed as harmful to orphaned children. They are forced to endure constant therapy to reflect upon their behaviors that goes far beyond what most adults are willing or capable to endure. The attitudes that this is the way you should behave because science says its what research supports can be seen as cruel and harmful as well. There are kids suffering under government care right now. If people would understand that God is about unconditional love and stop judging and undermining Jesus teachings by pushing hate based pseudo Christianity which distorts and perverts the actual teachings and purpose of Jesus’ incarnation as the new covenant who replaced the old covenant of the Old Testament the world would be a better place. I think LGBTQIA people should reclaim Christianity and show the world an example of what Jesus taught. Unconditional love, non judgmental, compassion, humbleness, care etc. Christians have attempted to teach us that God condemns us for who he made us to be. It doesn’t get much more evil than that. The Bible says there is one unforgivable sin. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit give us our spirit. I think it could be interpreted as blasphemy against the holy spirit for a church or person to teach that a group of people is evil for being who the Holy Spirit created them to be. Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” - for they were saying, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’” (Mark 3:28-30) Pseudo Christians don’t follow the commandments of Jesus Christ. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus never condemned LGBTQIA people for who they are. The four Gospels of Jesus are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.