We are not indicting Mother Teresa with lacking compassion or with cruelty toward her patients. The problem was her Roman Catholic [1] belief that personal suffering helps to earn one’s salvation [2]. She expressed this clearly regarding her own salvation [2] 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.”