Seanad debates

Wednesday, 22 October 2003

I may be the only person in this House to take a dissenting view of Mother Teresa, and I say that with respect. I take a different view of the political impact of her work. I want to express my concern, and ask that it be transmitted to the appropriate quarters, that the Minister for Defence, Deputy Smith, attended as a representative of the Government of the people of Ireland at the beatification of Mother Teresa in the light of the fact that the miraculous cure attributed to her has been challenged significantly by the two doctors who treated the woman concerned. They said that she did not have cancer and that she was responding, as anticipated, to treatment for a tubercular cyst, which disappeared as they had anticipated. It is a pity the Government is involved in a hoax.

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