Grayson Lesley - Milburn's Current Event #2 - Mother Teresa to be named a Saint

   Mother Teresa died in 1997, but her memory still lives on. Mother Teresa is due to be canonized on September 4th. She will be named St. Teresa of Kolkata. But there is some tension about the canonizing. Some do not believe it is the right thing, despite all of the good she has done for Kolkata, India. She opened a home for the dying, a hospital for the sick and many orphanages. by the time she died she had a following of more than 4,000.

  But with the good, there is bad. People who worked along side of her say that the poor who came to her for aid were inadequately cared for, left in gross conditions or treated by volunteers who were never given medical training. After her death, people began to study her. Many question began to arise. People talked about her odd way of caring for the sick, her religious and political views and her use of the tons of money she received."

   There are several different steps to becoming a saint. First, witnesses are gathered to affirm that the saint-to-be lived a religious, holy and honest life. The second part is the miracles. There have to at least two bona fide miracles that had to have occurred when the person was alive. The church will normally bring in different people to testify against or with the person. The process isn't usually allowed to begin until at least five years after the prospective saint's death.

There has been a recent uproar to this news. People are split. Is it the right thing for the church to do? Can a person truly be a saint? Even a saint is still human and humans make mistakes. What do you think?

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