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RE: THE CONTROVERSY BEHIND MOTHER TERESA AND THE LIE OF HER SAINTHOOD
It's hard to say whether she was deliberately cruel and hypocritical, or whether her behavior is simply the result of her restricting and punitive beliefs, combined with a very likely severe depression. Time actually published an interview titled Crisis of Faith: http://time.com/4126238/mother-teresas-crisis-of-faith/ where she talked about a "darkness," "dryness" and "loneliness" and separation from people and from God that no one knew about.
I remember reading it about ten years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since, that her personal life and self-perceptions were SO FAR from what the world made her out to be.
I don't think she was cruel on purpose, but I believe that her intentions are irrelevant. And you are right about her crisis of faith..just read the final quote under the '2000s' section here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#2000s
Wow. She really had it out for herself. That's really sad. I think her intentions ARE highly relevant. If a person does something cruel out of cruelty and senselessness, this is not the same thing as doing something cruel out of blind misguided behavior. And as such, the person should be viewed and appreciated differently, and judged differently.
It is essential to judge a person's character. This is the thing that prepares us and preserves us during real life experiences.
Cruelty is wrong regardless, but I think we can find ways to mitigate it when we know what we're looking at--learning from history. I think she inflicted some cruelty, but she also inflicted some good as well. What can we learn from her story?