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He founded the nonprofit Advocacy Organization with dignity and the five wishes advanced directive which sold 40 million copies and is used in all 50 states. Two, he met his wife mary in Mother Teresas washington d. C. s aide home and continues to provide Pro Bono Services for the missionary of charity. Please give a warm savannah welcome to jim towey. [applause] thank you, kathy for the lovely introduction and so nice of you to be here today. I feel very much at home. I group up in jacksonville, a little south from here, and the Southern Hospitality is part of my life and ive felt it since i got into this area. I want to thank the murphys, too, for sponsoring this morning and welcome, coach and Melinda Durham in georgia and jim bolis and his wife terry. Look, i know the reason im here to speak is because of my longtime friendship and working relationship with a modern day saint, george bush. Just kidding. [laughter] to see if youre listening. Now, this book came about because of the kindness of god that i had the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa and so im trying to repay the debt. I was invited by Cardinal Dolan of new york city to come to a gathering of his media people to do his radio show and his television program. He sees me from afar and he goes, towey, how long are you going to milk this Mother Teresa thing . And i so i want to make clear that mary and i, we are indebted to mother and we are devoting all the royalties to the mission of charity and other charities aligned with her life work. So were not keeping a penny of that. [applause] marys not here with me today because she didnt like that decision no, im kidding. [laughter] shes great. Youll read about her in the book starting on page 84. But i wrote this book on the occasion of Mother Teresas 25th anniversary of her death for a number of reasons. I certainly wanted a record for my kids and my grandkids and family members, friends, for the missionaries of charity themselves, the nuns, religious order that Mother Teresa formed. I thought that was important. I knew when i met mother that she was a saint. She just was different from anyone id ever met so anytime i spoke with her, it was my regular habit to then write contemporaneous notes of what she said and that was very helpful in writing this book. I also wanted to detail the manner of her death. Its really beautiful, its in chapter 14. Its never been published. Not only the runup to it, but the actual last 48 hours, theres such sweetness to it, such beauty and how she prepared herself and others for that inevitable moment. It was important for me also to set the record straight on some of the critics that have come after mother in the years after her death, those that troll her on the internet, and post things that arent true, so theres a chapter 11 thats a defense of her and a definitive rebuttal, i hope. But really, the most important reason i wrote the book, to me, was to capture the woman, the remarkable woman that was the saint. Catholics have a way of taking saints and turning them into little plastic statues and ascribing all sorts of ethereal qualities to them so we focus on whether someone levitated in church or, you know, had the stigmat and so forth, thinking theyre supernatural and different from the rest of us. Mother teresa became a saint not in spite of her humanness, but through it. She was a great woman, a great mother, tremendous courage. Mother loved life. She loved people. Its a its sad when you see people that love god and dont love people. You know, to mother, it was the same thing. She was enthralled by her sisters, those young women that joined her. They were her daughters. When i would drive her up to the church or to the convent where the sisters would come out to greet her, theyd all stream out and mother would get out and grab their face like this and look in their eyes and just focus on them like they were the only person in the world that mattered. Very maternal, very much a mother. She liked to laugh. She liked to make her sisters laugh. She liked chocolate, you know . So there you have it. The surest path to sanctity is eating chocolate. Thats your take away. You know, she wrote poetry. She loved to sing. She and her sisters sang together. She was very wellread. Her formal education ended at age 18, but she had a voracious appetite for reading and so, theres a collection of all the books she read that filled shelves back in tijuana at the Mother Teresa center. She spoke five languages. She wasnt perfect. It does no good to remember her in a way that describes her in a manner that says she was perfect. She wasnt. She had imperfections. She was famously stubborn. She was impatient. And those imperfections were necessary for a woman who was going to need perseverance and conviction, and over time god perfected those imperfections and i watched her and im going to talk about that a little bit, what kind of courage that required that she could get angry. She got angry at me. One time at an outdoor mass in mexico at the sign of peace moment in the mass, all of these kids started rushing toward her and i was to her left and i was going to protect her from these kids coming up so i jump up the kids and tell them, no, no, no, and mother says, stop, let them come and she just kind of glared at me, you know. I didnt turn into a pillar of salt. Thats the good news. [laughter] but, she would speak about the fact that shed corrected someone with anger and she would go and apologize later. For those of you who are catholics and you know what confession is, she availed herself of that sacrament regularly and she had things to say in it. She didnt just go in and say me bless, well, i havent sinned actually. [laughter] no, she understood all along that she was a work in progress, that she was a lowly hand maid in a sense. I was asked at the time of her death what my thoughts were by a reporter and i said, well, it was sort of francis of assisi that he was the most christlike person since christ and i said i think that Mother Teresa was the most mary like person since mary, that see was really virgin and mother to a world that needed a mother. Her compassion, her love, her tenderness. I think to really appreciate mother, you have to place her in a Historical Context because she left her home at age 18, said goodbye to her mother at a train station. She never saw her mother again. She went off to the loretto sisters first by train and then by ship and arrives in january, 1929, a couple of years of formation, takes her vows and then is teaching at loretto compound in calcutta, a walled area for some of the privileged kids of calcutta and then some of the poor bengaly kids that were at the school and she was, for 15 years, history and geography, other subjects and of course, india then becomes involved in world war ii in 1939, the viceroy declares war on indias behalf without consulting the indians. And gandhi and others opposed this. Gandhi was arrested in 1942 because of his opposition. Well, a lot of the sisters left calcutta as the war started to come closer to india and mother was there on the compound until the british requisitioned it. So mother and one other sister stayed with 300 girls and they rented two spaces, one where they had studies and ate and one where they slept and this is how mother was living during world war ii after the british had requisitioned. Then, of course, as the war ends in 1945, india had been promised independence and this began to roil the country, particularly in northern india where mother lived because of the hindumuslim conflicts that had been evident throughout indias history, but were particularly acute at this time. So for during that period, 1945 to 1946, the war ended, of course, in august of 45, those tensions started to spill over to what was called the great day of killing in august of 1946. Now, picture mother at this point. She had nearly died in 1942 from exhaustion. She was teaching so much, doing all of this other work, keeping things together for the girls. And then, no sooner does she recover from that, then shes made principal 1944 of the school, so shes running everything. Then the war ends and now the violence begins in the streets and then theres the great day of killing in 1946, thousands dead in the streets. Mother had to go outside the compound to try to go get food, dead bodies everywhere. Here is this woman who had come to teach in india in the middle of a post war battle for independence. 1946 is the seminal year in her life because it was on september 10th when she finally left, not even a month after the great day of kills, to go on retreat to get a break. So she gets on a train, shes on the train and realizes that god is calling her to leave the confines of the convent and go and work with the poorest of the poor in the streets, to satiate. And 1947 comes and shes back from her retreat and shes now sharing with the priest the intimate details of visions she had of jesus telling her what to do to go and come be my light. Go into the dark holes and claim these poor souls and love them and give them care, all the people. And you can imagine in calcutta now its transformed greatly. Had it once been india capital, a real jewel, but overrun by a series of dreadful developments, the famine, 194243, owing in part to the war. Requisitioning of boats that kept the rice from being circulated in the country. So she leaves she has to deal with that and the influx. Millions died, many came from the villages, scavenging for food. Then you have the partitioning of i india, which led to so much violence and the displacement of 16 Million People in that area. So now youve got the whole area roiled this violence and goes into retreat and on the train and jesus is saying no, now your work is about to begin, youve had it easy up until now. She comes back january of 47 trying to understand what jesus wanted her to do. She knew what she was supposed to do, but didnt know how to get there. How does this single, solitary woman do this. Shes talking to the priest and the nuns suspect her of having an inappropriate relationship with the priest because theyre having private conversations so they banish her 150 miles away to another convent and she goes through six months of difficulty mcjudged and misunderstood and bears it. During that period of time she recounts in her letter intimate discussions that jesus had with her about what he wanted her to do and thats recounted in the book. All of this is to stay a woman can at that point decide im going to go out because god has called mae to, into the streets. The bishop is terrified he says, okay, well, is this going to take some time . And it did. And mother peststered him with a bunch of letters and led to finally his approval. She gets her approval from the nuns in ireland, the mother house in the same month that gandhi is assassinated. I found that mother never met gandhi, but i found it very interesting, there was a convergence at two points on the day of indias independence august 15th, 1947, mother and gandhi were both in calcutta. The same week that mother got permission to go to the streets to deal with all castes of india, the untouchables, and the same week she got permission gandhi was assassinated. Felt like almost a passing of the torch. Mother teresa then has to get nurse training so she could deal with the lepers that she would now be administering to and in 1948 with a muslim girl accompanying her she starts off in the slums. Think of the courage it took for this woman to do this and now shes going to ask some of other old school girls that she taught, do you want to join me . One by one, they did. By 1950 there were 12 of them in a oneroom space in calcutta where mother had a quote there, she said im learning to want what he gives and not what i prefer. Kind of an assessment, i think, of her inner life. You know, one of the jobs i did for her as her lawyer was keep people from raising money in her name. She prohibited fund raising. She said she preferred the insecurity of divine providence. You know, a beautiful dependence on god for everything. I know youre probably wondering why she had a lawyer. President bush when he would introduce me, towey was her lawyer and what kind of a world that she had to have a lawyer. She liked to sue people kidding, kidding. [laughter] i helped her with immigration and other things in the book and theres a chapter on interesting cases by the way of what i ran into. These women joined now, theres 26 women living in this cramped space on the third floor. 26 women and one bathroom, yeah, her first miracle. [laughter] so, they move in 1949 to the mother house where they are to this day. So you look at the development of that and you look through her life and you see how is it possible, how is it possible that this woman could have had attracted 3800 women to follow her into the worst places in the world. By the time of her death she was in 120 countries and in some of the worst slums in the world. She had 700 homes, you know, she had an order, hundreds of men that had joined as brothers and dozens of priests and her missionary and charities fathers. How did i end up meeting mother . I tell the story in the first few chapters, but ill simply say it was gods mercy and kindness. At that time in my life, i was a very disaffected catholic. I wasnt living my faith. Pascal described sin as licking the earth and i was licking the earth and i had tasted sin and i was comfortable in my hypocrisy. The beauty about being a hypocrite, you can spot it everywhere. I was judging everybody, but i was watching this woman from afar, now shes practicing the faith, living the gospel, but im not and i wanted to meet her. The senator from oregon, Mark Hatfield knew her and he was sending me overseas on a trip and i thought why dont i go back through india. The problem was, i didnt want to be around poor people. Very hard to do and i had no interest. Im going to calcutta one day and on the way home to hawaii for five days. And thats how i talked myself into doing it. And thats what i did. And i met mother, a little tiny woman. She came out. It was the week she turned 75. And just bristling with energy. She was everything i wasnt. Purposeful, intentional, in love with god. This was a woman in love with god. So dramatic to see her tenderness of that relationship. Even though chapter 11 talks about the darkness that she experienced im sorry, chapter 12. She went through a period of darkness, she never lost her faith. She had the core conviction of gods love for the poor and she saw jesus in his distressing sides of the poor and i was introduced to her at the home of dying, and mother, a brief meeting. Have you been to the home of the dying . I said no, go and ask for sister luke. I had the rest of the day to kill, and say hi to my sisters for washington and i go home to the home of the dying an and i had my embassy driver there, and pressed shirt and dress slacks and stepping over people in states id never seen in my life in poverty and misery. I walked in, it was clean and there was peace and it was beautiful. I asked for sister luke and she said hi. I said i was with Mother Teresa this morning, thought it was great to drop her name. I was with Mother Teresa. And i said and she told me to come here she said great. Here is some cotton and here is solution and go and clean that guy that has scabies in bed 46. Im like, oh, bed 46. Im here for the tour. You know . [laughter] it was the last they think i wanted. So, and thats why i feel comfortable talking to you today and my friend on cspan because it was the mercy of god. There wasnt one tiny bit of me that wanted to go back to that man, but i realized, as the years went by, that when i touched that man that jesus in his distressing disguise touched me back. I want to stress a couple of things about mothers life that i think are important. One was how she aged. Mother saw aging as a blessing not a curse. She saw it as a momentum in her life where she was drawing closer to god that she was going home to god. When mary was pregnant with our third child, we were living in tallahassee and mothers coming to washington so we wanted to have her bless the baby, so we leave the two little ones behind and me fly up to washington for the day and mother comes out, mary, youre pregnant. When are you due . And mary says im due august 8th, but i think ill be early and mother says, no, youll have that baby on my birthday. And i said mother, i hope not because your birthday is august 26th if shes 18 days later my life will be a living heck. [laughter] so, long story short, the night of august 25th, mary goes into labor, were like oh, my gosh, the angels at work were going to have a little girl and were going to name her teresa. Midnight strikes and the doctor says, congratulations, you have a little boy. And my wife says, are you sure . Yeah, this is how we tell. This is how they train us. [laughter] and so, but while mary was still in the hospital we got sandy mcmuhr tri, mothers very close friend got a call from sister priscilla and suggested that we try to get back there because mother was dying and she was in the hospital. With marys blessing, i went to calcutta with sandy. When we arrived at airport, you need to go straight to the hospital, shes on oxygen, please, can we get there before she dies. We get up to the hospital the area where her room is, theres a buzz of activity and i see the sisters and i thought please, no, she didnt just die, did she . And the sisters said no, no, mother was laying there and pointing up and just was looking up, and they were all looking up, what is she looking at . And she just said, im going home. Im going home to god. And you know, mother had that orientation that shed come from god and was going to god and that she really believed that god was with her. She said the greatest need of a person was to love and to be love, that this was greater than food, shelter, and clothing. And she lived that. In fact, engraved on her tombstone in calcutta is the passage from johns gospel, love one another as i have loved you. Mother believed that. It was as simple to her as matthews gospel, whatever you did to the least of my brethren, you did it to me. I remember once she met with janet reno, took her hand and opened up her hand and janet was a tall, tall woman and she was attorney and she took her hand and said you did it to me. And it was the five finger gospel. It wasnt just the bread, but friend of friendship for people feeling unloved. And the worst that shed seen she was asked, and she said leprosy or aids, no, its loneliless, and rich and poor, people often feel unloved, unwanted, unneeded and mother sent her life in service. She says a life not lived for others is not worth living and i think she really spent all of her energies loving god and the poor and loving life. She was truly human and it was a privilege to see the beauty of that humanity and how she allowed herself to be loved, as she aged. I met her the week she turned 75 and some will say, oh, by age 75, you know, your best years are behind you. It wasnt true for mother at all. They were evangelical. There was a power to them because people watched her. They had heard what she said, but watched her as she aged. How she bore illness. This was a tough woman. Five heart attacks, a stroke, tb. Malaria dozens of times, broken arms, ribs, legs, you name it she went through, she was in a plane crash and survived. I mean, Mother Teresa had an interesting life thats recounted here, but she saw that aging was a blessing, that she knew she was getting closer to god. She knew that god, if she was asked to suffer. She said she would accept it and offer it, and all of these things, she truly showed the beauty of her humanity and i hope that this little book gives some reflection of that and honors that remarkable woman who really dominated the 20th century. Id be happy to answer any questions that you have now. Leave some times for questions. [applause] dont be shy. Come up to the microphone, you can ask about my hair dresser, if you have a question about that. [laughter] she was born in skopje. The question, where she was born. Skopje, which is northern macedonia. She an interesting childhood. Very prosperous family. Her dad was a merchant, very successful. He was also involved in the Movement Toward albanian independence and when she was age eight, her father was poisoned and so she then was cast then her fathers Business Partner appropriated the assets of the family so she was then cast into poverty and her mother had to work. She had two siblings, and so thats why when she felt the call from god to be a missionary and to go to india, it was a real sacrifice for her mother, for her to leave her, and i write about that relationship with her mother in the book, but its mother tried to see her in this early 19 in the late 1960s and albania was under an atheist communist dictator and if mother went in, they wouldnt let her out. And mother said when she died shed be judged by her mother to see whether shed honored the sacrifice her mother had made by letting her go be a missionary. So, very interesting childhood and very interesting life. Because she stayed in calcutta after she started missionary as a charity. She didnt leave calcutta for 30 years after she had arrived so her first speech in the united states, anybody know where it was . It was in las vegas. [laughter] vegas. The National Council of catholic women and she spoke at their convention her first public speech in 1960. So if you want to make a religious pilgramage in honor of mother, yes. Your presentation was fabulous, i was raised catholic and had the infant prague in my window on the day of my birthday every year and so your mention of statue. Something caught my ear when you mentioned or kathy mentioned when they introduced you the five wishes. I worked for a hospice care in bolder, colorado for almost 10 years and we used when it first came out we used five wishes. Wow. A lot. So i would like for you to can you just touch on the development of that. Happy to. Five wishes is an advanced directive. I tell them after the book how the moment i then got more and more involved with the sisters and ultimately one of the most important things i was doing for mother was running interference for her while she was opening aids homes. In the 1980s, that disease was spreading like wildfire and people died precipitously and so, the poor had nowhere to go. So mother opened aids homes so i worked in one and i was and mother asked me to. Again, i was shamed into it because i didnt want to do that, but i was seeing these women do it, these sisters were doing it. Wait, if theyre doing it, i can do it. So i ended up living in the aids home and from those experiences i wrote five wishes, which is an advanced directive that helps you plan for and discuss end of life care, not just your medical needs, it is a legal document, but also your personal, spiritual and emotional needs. How you want to be remembered, what you want your loved ones to know so you can have a peaceful vision for your endgame so now theres 40 million copies out now in america in 30 languages, you can do five wishes. Org, not doing a commercial for it, but yeah, i love it. Five wishes helped a lot of familys void family feuds and understand the wishes if you want to be a good daughter, son, for your mom or dad when they need you the most, know what their wishes are and especially medical wishes because sometimes medicine doesnt know when to stop and im a little worried about assisted suicide and those efforts. You should have a better choice between pain and poison. We should be managing pain better. I watched ow how mother did it and five wishes i did it for the purpose of helping educate people what a how they could have a beautiful death like mother has described in 14. Yes, sir. Hi, great presentation. Thank you. I recall a speech she gave at the National Prayer breakfast in washington where she spoke of a culture of life versus a culture of death, which resonated with me. Yes, she i was there. It was february of 1994. It was the first time she had met the clintons. It was she met them back stage. They talked afterwards, but mother gave a speech that cspan, i think, carries to this day, a very powerful speech and you know, and she spoke unabashedly about her prolife views and unflinchingly with president clinton sitting there. And i described that breakfast in the book. So mother met them afterwards and i met mother back at the convent afterwards and i describe that in here, too. Mother had, you know, access to leaders, especially after the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was, you know, access to leaders to her just simply meant i can bring my sisters to come serve the poor, like castro, she met with astro and was able then to get into cuba. Castro of course told her we dont have any poor in cuba. Thats what he told her. She said well, you have old people and can i come and care for them . Thats how she got in. Very clever. She loved president reagan and i write about that in the book. She could call him from a pay phone in india and get into the oval office. So, that story is in there. So, yeah. She was involved around politics, but tried not to be in it. She was there for jesus. She was there for the poor. She had great judgment, but recognized that her focus was to touch jesus in the disguise of the poor. Yes, sir. Mother teresa spent an awful lot of time communicating with people. She has also communicated with my brother, john. Oh, yeah. And i have personal letters back and forth to each other. My question is, how many people did she actually correspond with in that way . Wow. During the process after her death where the catholics look at making someone a saint, they collect all of the materials of that persons life and so, i had to turn in all of my handwritten letters and all of my legal i was one of the 113 witnesses that the vatican put under oath to testify and because i had dealt with world aaffairs with mother. Many could talk about her sanctity and prayerfulness and i could talk how she dealt with government leaders and some corrupt people, too. So they collected all of this. Thats where they came up with mothers letters, her own personal letters because priests had that them were her confessors. That was part of the collection process. My guess is, of regular she used to stay up late at night doing her own correspondence. This is a woman, by the way, got up every day of her life at 4 40. And all of her sisters all over the world today do that. You know, they wash their clothes by hand, no computers, very simple how theyve kept its amazing how these 25 years. My guess is of regular correspondence and she had all of her sisters writing her and regionals and her organization. Im guessing she had hundreds of regular correspondence with people, you know . Shed only write a few lines sometimes, but sometimes, i had a threepage letter from her. So she was remarkable and that penmanship. That school teacher, you know, its perfect. And she used to sign her name, god bless you, mteresa, m17 and she said those were 17 acts of love each letter. And john was lucky to have a letter from her, its a relic. He has had a number of them. He has a number of them. Put them up on ebay. No kidding. I did, i made a fortune. [laughter] thank you. Im not your publicist, but i would like you to recommend the people buy your book for two reasons, and i talked to you before so i understand you dont want to get into the politics of Mother Teresa, but one reason i would like you to recommend people buy your book so they can read pages 110 and 111 and also so they can read about all the opportunists that some evil people took toward the end in demonizing her and suing her. Those are really very interesting stories to tell people to buy her book. Thank you, and you can be my publicist anytime. Feel free to hi. Hi. Mother teresa has always been just one of my alltime heroes and so, its such an honor to be able to hear you talk about your experiences with her. So thank you so much for coming, but i have a question about your life. You said when your child was important, if it was a girl you were prepared to name her teresa and it was a boy. So my question is, what did you name your son . [laughter] was it terry or laughter well, we named him maximillian. Go figure. But in honor of a priest who died during world war ii and given up his place for a family man. They were going to execute people who had escaped from a concentration camp and they randomly picked a bunch of people and one was a father beg, i have a wife, i have children so this priest stepped forward, maximillian caldy, ill take his place. When i got to mothers hospital room and showed her the photo of baby maximillian and unbeknownst to me i was at his cannonization and i set next to the man whose life was saved. And that was wild. Naming our kids was always a challenge and she also wanted to name one after john paul the great. John paul ii. But the problem was that would have made him john paul towey. [laughter] we thought thats a bridge too far. That kid will be, hell be in fights this whole time in every catholic school. So we went we didnt. We just went with john, so any other questions . This has been great. I think were supposed to break soon. Yes. Say again . inaudible cheerfulness. Can i talk about the cheerfulness of Mother Teresa . Sure. One of the characteristics of all missionaries of charities that join, they have three cares and the total surrender, loving trust and cheerfulness. Mother was very serious about cheerfulness. She felt like and i was with her one time in San Francisco when she was giving a talk to these young women who were about to take their vows and they were sitting there, these were girls probably in their 20s, 30 not even, like 20s. And theyd been three years of formation and now theyre about to take their vows and mother was standing there, i just remember shes going now, if you cant be cheerful with the poor, i want you to go home right now. Just like that, go home. And i just remember she then started imitating a grumpy nun and walked back and forth and they were all laughing and all got her point because, you know, theres nothing worse than a grumpy christian, you know . Its a contradiction, right . An oxymoron because theres a joy of the gospel and a happy ending to all of this, right . All right. Well,. [applause] yes . Do i ever ask myself why me . Yeah. Yeah, i do. I do. I mean, i feel like i won the lottery, as the kindness and the mercy of god. Yeah. I mean, i one time said to mother, i wish youd read me my rights when i met you because it did change, you know, and working, i didnt see that in my fiveyear plan when i was in jacksonville. But i would have i cant think its been 37 years and i spend every day trying to pay back the debt and thanking god for that because, yeah, it was its the privilege of a lifetime to meet a woman like that and the implications in your life. And then tell the story how i met mary, i owe that to mother. She sent 35 sisters to our wedding, but i met my wife in an aids home, not your standard way to meet someone. But so, yeah, i have a well, we all have our stories, dont we, how god touches us and invites us to love one another as he loves us. And hopefully, this book will encourage and inspire lives of service to reach out to people who are lonely, to people who are poor in spirit and materially and to spread that love in the joy of the gospel in a world that needs it, in a time when we dont know what is true and what isnt. With all of this ai thats creeping in and were talking about shooting down balloons while there are grave issues facing our country. Theres only one way i know of that can bring a people together and thats love of god and love of neighbor and its time tested and true and worked for Mother Teresa. God bless you and thank you for coming out today. [applause] weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast. 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