Roland, I am amazed at your turning legal jurisprudence upside down. In legal jurisprudence a person is considered innocent unless PROVEN guilty. And here you are proclaiming a person/ institution guilty unless proven innocent. That too on baseless, unsubstantiated allegations.
Your response is like rubbing salt into raw wounds when you once again insinuate that the accounts of the Missionaries of Charity are colourable or suspect. For your kind information the accounts are audited and filed with the Income Tax, Charity Commissioner, and the govt FCRA dept. All receipts come in through banking channels and the banks file regular reports with the govt. The allegations you have made and repeated have not even been made by a hostile government. They are definitely over the top and absolutely inappropriate. If you sincerely desire to know the facts, you can easily file an RTI application and you will be provided with the information and documents. An RTI application costs only Rs 100. Your sincerity is now put to the test. So far as criticism of St Mother Teresa or her work is concerned, I have no problem. In a free world where everyone is entitled to their opinions or views, even the nutcases, I have no issues. Armchair critics come a dime a dozen. As one who has seen, witnessed and experienced the holiness and work of St Mother Teresa, I speak from personal conviction. The day her critics clean the maggot infested wounds of a destitute, or tend to leprosy patients or provide love and affection to the severely mentally and physically challenged, or provide care and warmth to abandoned babies that is the day, I will give some credence to the critics. I have high regard and respect for you and consider you a gentleman. I would request you to ruminate over what you have written and if convinced that you have acted unfairly do the decent thing and withdraw your unsubstantiated allegations and apologise. We need to make the world a better place and not vitiate the atmosphere. No hard feelings. Regards, Marshall *I am ready to apologize for repeating an allegation that already exists in the public domain about the lack of financial transparency of the Sisters, if you provide evidence that this is not so. An annual statement of their operations will do for this purpose.Few deny that nuns doing charitable work provide ?yeoman service?. However, you will also find few people who have not experienced their hard nose for money. In my previous posts I have been even-handed about the alleged baby trafficking. Read those posts again. However, if you want me to give unqualified support to the Missionaries of Charity, I will await the outcome of the inquiry before I do that.Roland FrancisToronto. *