MT also said something like, "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." She did a lot of good in her lifetime, that cannot be denied, even if you dont' agree with her 100%, say on things like her unswavering condemnation of birth control. What MT thought of gays, I couldn't tell you, but you didn't see her spouting off about same-sex marriage and gay people every chance she got, like today's spiritual charlatans like to do. She worked alongside Muslims, Hindus, and Christians of other traditions, never forcing her own beliefs on others even as they lay dying under her care. That is commendable.
She was a great woman, and if half of the world's Christians (rephrase, if half of the world's population) could be like her, the world would be a different place.
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