Mother Teresa and Robert Maxwell

From the tweet above the tweet linked in main post:

https://tweetsave.com/tiff_fitzhenry/status/1155186606539755520 | https://archive.fo/YclcX

Mother Teresa's connections include Baby Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator, Saving's and Loan criminal Charles Keating, and Robert Maxwell, the father of Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking partner, Ghislaine Maxwell.

[telegraph.co.uk - "Mother Teresa's legacy under cloud as sainthood nears"- https://archive.fo/TvoJE]

From article linked in above tweet:

She was criticised for accepting donations from such unsavoury figures as Baby Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator, the disgraced British publisher Robert Maxwell and a scandal-tainted American banker, Charles Keating, who was convicted of fraud and racketeering.

Further information (albeit very limited) on Mother Teresa and Robert Maxwell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa | https://archive.fo/i8wig

She accepted money from the British publisher Robert Maxwell,^[13][14] who, as was later revealed, embezzled UK£450 million from his employees' pension funds. There is no suggestion that she was aware of any theft before accepting the donation in either case.

^{^ Reference 13 is the article linked in the tweet at the top of this comment.}

^{^ Reference 14: christiantoday.com - "Mother Teresa and her critics: Should she really be made a saint?": https://archive.fo/4cLA6}

Mother Teresa's interventions in politics have been criticised more widely. She endorsed the appalling rule of Enver Hoxha in her native Albania and even backed Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in India in 1975, saying: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." She also took money from highly questionable sources, including the publisher Robert Maxwell, who stole hundreds of millions from his companies' pension funds.

Among the most damaging criticisms, however, are those around the quality of care in her hospitals and the alleged ulterior motives of her Missionaries of Charity.

The editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, Robin Fox, visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta in 1991 and produced a disturbing report. He said that care was haphazard and that nursing sisters were required to take decisions for which they were not qualified. He said the sisters did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, and that there was a lack of strong painkillers which he related to Mother Teresa's view that pain was a blessing.

theguardian.com - "When Bobby met Terry... | A new play imagines what Robert Maxwell and Mother Teresa talked about the day they met": https://archive.fo/ASszL

The tiny, apparently unworldly nun in the famous white habit with blue edging, and the fleshy tycoon with the habit of expropriating what wasn't his, met in London on Friday 15 April 1988, in Maxwell's London flat. The only other person present was a photographer, provided by the Daily Mirror to ensure documentary evidence of the historic encounter. Not that the pair of them seem, in the picture, to be doing much encountering: he's on the telephone and she's on her rosary. Perhaps they bonded over a shared talent for image-creation.

theargus.co.uk - "The Bargain, Theatre Royal, Brighton | Why would corporate monster Robert Maxwell get together with 20th-century living saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta?": https://archive.fo/XJIpJ

In his imagination of the meeting, Ian Curteis, controversial author of the drama documentary The Falklands Play, comes up with some surprising ideas.

The meeting certainly happened.

It took place in London on Friday, April 15, 1988, and the only witness was a photographer who left as soon as the meeting began. Both subjects are now dead and there is no record of what was said.

I've been unable to find any source on this directly from The Daily Mirror, however, some photos taken by the photographer from The Daily Mirror are available on alamy.com:

_{Robert Maxwell on telephone and Mother Teresa With rosary Communication April 1988 - Image ID: B4XGE1:}

https://archive.fo/avcd4

_{Robert Maxwell Crooked Tycoon keeps Mother Teressa waiting while he makes a phone call in his office at Mirror group Newspapers - Image ID: B4XGK4:}

https://archive.fo/l6W9k

_{Robert Maxwell Crooked Tycoon with Mother Teresa in his penthouse suite at Offices of Daily Mirror Holborn Circus April 1988 - Image ID: B4XGJX:}

https://archive.fo/1Ra4a

Also from the Criticism of Mother Teresa wiki entry:

She supported Licio Gelli's nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[21] Gelli was known for being the head of the Propaganda Due masonic lodge, which was implicated in various murders and high-profile corruption cases in Italy, as well as having close connections with the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement and the Argentine Military Junta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due | https://archive.fo/IGyik

Propaganda Due (Italian pronunciation: [propaˈɡanda ˈduːe]; P2) was a Masonic lodge under the Grand Orient of Italy, founded in 1877. Its Masonic charter was withdrawn in 1976, and it transformed into a clandestine, pseudo-Masonic, ultraright[1][2][3] organization operating in contravention of Article 18 of the Constitution of Italy that banned secret associations. In its latter period, during which the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli. P2 came to light through the investigations into the collapse of Michele Sindona's financial empire.[4]

^{^ I will be making a submission which takes a closer look at this later}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Movement | https://archive.fo/YktsJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process | https://archive.fo/Ks9fm (Argentine Military Junta)

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As another factoid, Mother Teresa was born in Ottoman Macedonia in 1910:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | https://archive.fo/1nRbe

Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha)[10] Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; Anjezë is a cognate of "Agnes"; Gonxhe means "rosebud" or "little flower" in Albanian) on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family[11][12][13] in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), Ottoman Empire.[14][15] She was baptized in Skopje, the day after her birth.[10] She later considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, her "true birthday".[14]

She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai).[16] Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old.[14][17] He may have been from Prizren, Kosovo, and her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova.[18]