View source for AIDS is just retribution for improper sexual conduct

<hide>
[[page type::article]]
[[thing type::quote]]
</hide>
[[File:Mother-teresa-AIDS.jpg|right]]
==About==
"[[AIDS is just retribution for improper sexual conduct]]" is a quote popularly attributed to [[Mother Teresa]]. The popularity of the quote is due to its absurdity: it is generally used as evidence against Mother Teresa and the [[Catholic Church]] in general.
==Sources==
Issuepedia is currently investigating the accuracy of this quote.

[[Christopher Hitchens]] says of Teresa his in book ''The Missionary Position'':

<blockquote>She also touched on AIDS, saying she did not want to label it a scourge of God but that it did seem like a just retribution for improper sexual conduct.</blockquote>

This is not a definitive quote (and I do not have the book to see what the context was). However, [[Michael Parenti]] [http://www.michaelparenti.org/motherteresa.html says] that she said something very similar in her 1979 [[Nobel Prize]] acceptance speech, video of which is available [http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1852 here]. I have not yet watched this to see if this is accurate and what the full quote might be.

[http://vatileaks.blogspot.com/2012/05/shattering-myth-of-mother-theresa.html This skeptic site] mentions the 1979 speech but does not cite it as the source for this quote. It does say, however:

<blockquote>When the International Health Organization honored Teresa in 1989, she spoke at length against abortion and contraception and called AIDS a "just retribution for improper sexual conduct".</blockquote>

I do not know if a recording or transcription of the 1989 speech is available, but it seems likely that there would be one somewhere.