Absolutely not. Mother Teresa of Calcutta helped thousands of the poorest of the poor of India. In fact, I cannot think of any harm she has done at all. Some anti-religious, anti-Christian, and anti-Catholic people are trying to make a big deal about Mother Teresa's struggle with her own spirituality. Mother Teresa was not perfect and did not have it easy. She was a real human being with real thoughts and feelings. Just like the rest of us, sometimes she felt close to God and, at times, felt abandoned by God. She wrote in one of her letters, "I am told God lives in me -- and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." Her letters show a real human struggle with her own spirituality and shows her humanity. Even Jesus cried out on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" Sometimes it seems to be the people with the greatest souls have the greatest doubts. With love in Christ.

What harm did she do? Because she had some of her own struggles with her faith she did harm? She did so many great things for some fo the poorest of the poor in this world and was an unyielding advocate for helping the poor. So to answer the question, no she did much more good than harm.

No, I think she did a lot of good

I knew her. I think she did more good than harm simply by stirring the imagination and conscience and idealism of a lot of people who otherwise would never have considered trying to help the poor and marginalised. Everything else is really just politics or opinion in my humble estimation, But thats

I'd be interested in knowing what harm she actually did do.

Mother Teresa was someone who saw poverty, misery, homelessness and disease and didnt flinch. She didnt toss out a few coins to assuage her conscience. She settled down into a life with these people. She fought for them, she gave them hope, she opened people's eyes to their misery. For those of us, who want our angels soft and gentle and with a halo, Mother Teresa came as a disappointment - she was tough, she grasped, she bossed around! And thats how she managed to make a difference to the lives of so many people. For those who have a problem with that - tough!

More good than harm. A+ for effort, A+ for political sharpness, B- for allowing unnecessary deaths and suffering, and for hiding donated money from use with the poor. Nobody's perfect! And nobody has the whole story. For reference: Mother Theresa doubted the existence of God, and feared that she was a hypocrite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Gv68wRC1Y Penn and Teller call "Bullshit" on her. She was "corrupt, nasty, cynical, and cruel"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbERjjQ508 A 1997 book "The Missionary Position" exposes some of the things Mother REALLY did. "Mother Teresa is first and foremost interested not in providing medical treatment, but in furthering Catholic doctrine". The hype is described by Timothy P. Scanlon, who worked with her for two years... http://www.amazon.com/dp/185984054X/#R3C5YK2U00FT8S Other criticisms listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa#Criticism It shocked me that people could say bad things about someone who is so marketed and revered for altruism. But there it is.

I'm not aware of any significant harm she did, and she certainly did a lot of good. I'm neither Catholic nor Christian, and I think she was a wonderful person who dedicated her life to helping others.

I've read many authors works who were highly critical of her and all i can is they only served to strengthened my faith in mother teresa as a saint, most criticisms lobbied against her was that her health care facilities were inadequate and that she and her missionaries of charity were "ignorant" in regards to medical treatment and proper health care, as a nurse here in the philippines, i can relate to that issue coz i work in a provincial hospital and i can honestly say that it's very difficult to provide proper health care to people esp. when you're lacking in facilities and equipment, we're so short on supplies that we even resort to administering skin testing with the same hypodermic needle to all the patients in our ward! if things are bad here in my country i could only imagine how unimaginably more worse it is in calcutta and it's neighboring states, the poor population there is literally a 1000 times more than here and if the situation is bad here what more there? it is not easy for mother teresa or her sisters to provide the "high quality healthcare" that her critics expect her to give when the situation is really bad, whatever donations she received back then even if they were millions it would have been immediately depleted with the expanding population and healthcare demand of calcutta. she did her best and the missionaries of charity are still doing her work and if her works alone are not enough to prove her saintliness then what about the inspiration she has given to others to become charitable and helpful to others esp. the poor? are those not good enough to say that she did more good than harm?