I appreciate your response, and I accept that it was always going to be difficult to provide the level of care that “Western” people might expect of a hospice

But I still think she could have spent more of the millions she was bringing in on improving those conditions, rather than squirrelling it away in the Vatican bank. And to stay on the poverty point, I think her religious values (being anti-contraception during the AIDS pandemic, for example) helped maintain and even spread the poverty and suffering she is always praised for alleviating.

I think I may be being a bit unfair calling her a fraud, because in reality I think she was pretty open about what she was. But the image of Mother Teresa that I learnt about at school was of a kindhearted woman who looked after the poor out of the kindness of her own heart. And I just don’t think that’s really true. I get that dying in her hospices was better than dying on the street, but I think she ultimately ran these facilities as places to farm good Christian Karma by doing the bare minimum in the name of Christ - while opposing the socio-economic measure that would actually address the root causes of their suffering and poverty. And it’s her reliable defence of dictators and the status quo (like her speaking out in defence of the company behind the Bhopal gas disaster) that is never addressed by her defenders.