Empire State Building Won't Honor Mother Teresa

The Empire State building has gone green for Saint Patrick's Day and Earth Day, red for the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and even pink for the release of a Mariah Carey album. Wednesday night, the landmark will be bathed in yellow for the "Alliance For Young Artists And Writers." However, the management of New York's tallest skyscraper turned down a request by the Catholic League to go blue and white to honor Mother Teresa on her 100th birthday in August and the City Council wants to know why.

The Council will consider a resolution Wednesday to force the Empire State Building's management the honor the Nobel Peace Prize winner, champion of the poor and candidate for sainthood. City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. introduced a bill formally requesting the tribute on behalf of the City. "She deserves better. She's one of the greatest women history has ever known," he said.

CBS 2's Lou Young tried to get answers from the Empire State building's management a few weeks ago, but came up empty. Neither was the City Council, and even the Archbishop of New York was perplexed.

"I kind of shrug my shoulders with everybody else," Dolan said on March 14. "I guess there must be a reason. It'd be tough for me to understand a credible one, but I wish they'd kind of tell us. It's tough to be against Mother Teresa?

The simple blue and white lighting would be the same colors used for a Yankees World Series win or an Israeli Independence Day. In this case it would be the colors worn by a crusader for the poor, yet the people who own the Empire State Building said they won't pay this simple tribute and they refuse to offer an explanation to people who made the application.

There's a number of reasons why they might not want to do this for Mother Teresa. Maybe they don't do it for individual people. Maybe they don't do birthdays. Maybe she's too short. The point is, they haven't talked at all, and they haven't given any reason at all why they won't light the building for her 100th birthday.

[pasioannina]

I am overseas and what i got was they gave the place to Donald Trump some Japanese owners, {i am in the mountains wind power eat trees } as i remeber before i came here that guy in Florida had cement blocks camouflage flowers to hide the blocks with a fancy trailer selling condos and tried to get employment with companys that he sponsored that wanted you to give them $ 500 bucks to start work and your work was to get some one to pay $500 to work too. That lady was a real lady , King Kong should of stayed out of the slum building

[starving1968-3]

Their decision is theirs alone.

If they decide NOT to honor Mother Teresa, it's their right.

[G. Lukacs]

I do not understand why someone who has devoted all her life to a noble cause without borders would not be honored. I also do not understan how a politician can introduce a bill usurping the right of a property owner when said property owner is not willing to go along with their idea of right and wrong. Sounds like the sanctity of the home is now in question. I believe we ought to stop knee jerk reactions to examples of stupidity and get on with the business of getting our country back on it's feet.

[denverdavid]

I am so sick of Catholics complaining everyone hates them if they don't get their way. What the heck do they do to other groups all the time?
I was raised Catholic and have come to the conclusion that they think they are better than anyone else.
They are the biggest hate group in the world. Just a bunch of holy roller bigots

[goirish1974]

I have come to the conclusion that you are an idiot.

[funnybroad99]

Nobody "honored" Mariah Carey. They were promoting her album... so that more people would buy it... to make money. The Catholic League knows this very well. They've started this as a publicity stunt to make money. You should see what they charge for a "membership". It's a supposedly "religious" site that has A SHOPPING CART!!! http://www.catholicleague.org/

[rcfnyc]

As a Catholic New Yorker and admirer of Mother Teresa, the last thing I want to honor her birthday is a "fight" to light the Empire State Building and I believe that would be the LAST thing she would want from any of us.
May I suggest we remember her in a simple way. Perhaps, we can remember her by wearing a blue/white ribbons on her 100th birthday or by reading her writings at various landmarks. Keep it humble, that was the spirit of Mother Teresa.
Stop this power play over the Empire State Building. It's upsetting and an embarrassment to those of us who really respect and love the spirit of Mother Teresa. RCF

[thebigkc]

Perhaps the owners believe there should be a separation of Church and Empire State?

[thebigkc]

Oh, and CADIG. You should stop attacking and start acting like a human being. If you think someone hasn't done good for humanity, then start doing that good yourself instead of pontificating about how bad other people are.

[Cadig]

Mother Theresa was nothing more than a demagogue. She never saved anyone from dying, she never helped anyone receive medical assistance. I'm so sick of this false belief that she was helping people. Did no one on earth ever pay attention to what her actual mission was? She wanted to convert and prevent contraception at all costs.

India has such a population problem that they are literally dying from their own waste. She thought suffering was holy and did much for God's glory. She wanted to prevent population control at all costs and thought that the poor and sick should remain so.

She took millions of dollars in charity and never used it to help the dying. People who gave her money just ASSUMED she was spending it on medical help for the dying but instead she just created more convents all over the world. She did nothing to improve the lives of the people of India.

Below is a link to an article written by a former missionary that worked in Mother Theresa's charity org.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/shields_18_1.html

[fer60us]

What a moron you are!! Nobody is perfect but she did help millions of people!! What have you done Cdig jus sit your butt on the sofa and scratch your big belly? What a shame!

[mah1121]

mother theresa spent her life doing one thing...she brought a little bit of dignity to people who were on death's door and kicked to the side of the road by society as untouchables. her life was not about her being a nun, or catholic, or a believer in a higher power. her life was about recognizing that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. and if you don't think being treated those who can't help themselves with dignity and respect is something worth while, well then that just really doesn't say much about you as a human being. its very easy to just complain. why don't you take a moment to actually educate yourself as to teh impact she had on the lives of so many.

[pragmatist1]

...hey, if they can honor Mariah Carey, a real humanitarian (right!), I don't see what the big deal is with not honoring Mother Theresa, other than the fact that she was Catholic, which is probably the real reason why they don't want to honor her...

[retiredgustav]

I am a liberal, a Christian, and I own guns. Stop drinking rush limbaugh's kool aid.

[mah1121]

people on this board really need to stop using the "kool aid" expression...its totally over used.