I know people don't like the Mail but sitting here drinking my tea and reading some of the comments this one really struck me, and it seems to me that it pretty much sums MM up. Everything - Christmas, visiting victims, the RF - it all gets turned to her advantage, 'how can I make myself look good AND make money.'
I don't know if it's personality disorder or if it's just how she is, but what exactly is it about her that her fans find so admirable?
And yes, I'm well aware that a lot of the criticisms in this could be levelled at a lot of places selling luxury goods for Christmas, that Christmas has become massively commercialised and the original message gets lost. I doubt they'd have turned on a priest pointing out another way to do good, though.
The Son of God entered the world in a stable and was laid in an animals’ feeding trough. He lived without wealth, warned against storing up earthly riches, told the rich to give to the poor, and made humility and charity central to His teaching. Advent exists to prepare for His coming. Yet multimillionaires, reportedly dressed in around $100,000 of luxury goods, are selling a $148 “Advent calendar” to mark it. So the birth of the poor Christ becomes a luxury sales opportunity; a season of spiritual preparation becomes expensive shopping; people who already possess enormous wealth make more money from His feast; and priests who point out the grotesque contradiction are supposedly the problem. It is difficult to imagine a more complete reversal of what Bethlehem represents.