That's certainly all news to me, Len, though I had always feared that something had to be "up" for her to be singled out as being so good.
On the other hand, I suppose that George Washington himself had ghosts in his closet that remain unknown simply because of the times back then.

Your last part - admitted selfishness on her part - surely was obvious though in the sense that virtually all people who "do good works" in the name of God do so to gain entry to Heaven. If that's not selfish by definition then I wonder what is?

The Pope, as part of his job, asks for leniency for anyone condemned to death. I can accept that even though specific instances may appear irrational to many of us (I don't believe in the death penalty but primarily because too many innocents sit on death row).

I guess I'll stand on the fact that Mother Teresa was about as good as it gets by today's standard despite her reported indiscretions.

cheers

>>I guess that Mother Teresa comes closest, at least in modern times, to being a well known example of practising Christianity as it is intended.
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>I assume this is the same Mother Teresa who praised the good works of the Duvalier family in Haiti in helping the poor of that country. The same one who requested lenience for Charles Keating during his trial for swindling millions of dollars from the poor (who also happened to donate over a million dollars to her & lent her the use of his jet plane). The same one who claimed in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, that the greatest threat to world peace was abortion. The same one who laid a wreath at the tomb of Hoxha, the dictator of her own country, who made so many of her own country people suffer.
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>Some of her views that she went to lengths to express (it was her stated aim to spread her particular [extreme] views of Catholic fundamentalism) make DD sound like a moderate.
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>She may have done a lot of good, but if you look closely you'll find a lot of the hypocricy shown by the majority of religious people. She admitted to one interviewer that the good work she did was selfish, in that it was for her own salvation, the help to other people was a beneficial side-effect.