We are not indicting Mother Teresa with lacking compassion or with cruelty toward her patients. The problem was her Roman Catholic belief that personal suffering helps to earn one’s salvation. She expressed this clearly regarding her own salvation at the 1993 Presidential Prayer breakfast:
“One of the most demanding things for me is traveling everywhere—and with publicity. I have said to Jesus that if I don’t go to heaven for anything else, I will be going to heaven for all the traveling with all the publicity, because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to heaven.”