Mother Theresa Sent to Hell in Wacky Afterlife Mixup

CALCUTTA--In what is widely believed to be the result of clerical

error on the part of Heaven's massive soul-evaluation and

punishment-allocation bureaucracy, The Calcutta Daily-Telegram

reported Monday that beloved missionary caregiver Mother Teresa

was condemned to agonizing, eternal torment in Hell following her

death last Friday at the age of 87.

Widely expected to ascend into Paradise and take her rightful place

among the saints to the glorious fanfare of horns and choruses upon

her passing, she was instead hurled from the firmament into the bowels

of the Lake of Fire.

"We can only assume that some sort of mix-up occurred in the processing

phase," said St. Peter, the heavenly official in charge of the Book of

Life, in which the names of those chosen to ascend to the Gates of Heaven

are written. "Unfortunately, when you deal with over 70 million souls a

day, these kinds of mistakes happen. What can I say? I don't know what

else to tell you."

Mother Teresa, who for decades inspired the world with her selfless

devotion to the starving, disease-ridden masses of Calcutta, was

unavailable for comment, as she was being lowered upside-down into a vat of

boiling human excrement by a trio of pitchfork-wielding demons. Similar

punishment reportedly awaits her for the rest of eternity.

Ever since Monday, heavenly angels, cherubim, seraphim, and other secondary

celestial entities have been working around the clock to keep up with the

enormous volume of intercessionary prayers arriving daily on Mother

Teresa's behalf. Despite the tremendous number of pleas, however, Heaven

essentially has its hands tied.

"It's sad that this happened," the archangel Gabriel, a spokesperson for

Heaven, told reporters. "But we really can't do anything about it. The

whole point of eternal damnation is that it is inescapable, absolute, and

irrevocable. If the Lord were to turn around and pull her out of Hell now,

he'd be turning his back on millennia of Catholic doctrine, on everything

Mother Teresa stood for."

Her arthritic limbs snapping like twigs as her frail, 4'11" frame was rent

asunder by the claws of grotesque, multi-limbed demons, Mother Teresa

reportedly screamed in indescribable agony as the superheated gases of

Hell's unholy furnace blackened and charred her hair and face. According

to a New York Times report, her skull has already been used as a drinking

goblet by Satan, the Great Deceiver himself, and the esteemed nun's rape at

the hands of insatiable, barbed-penis-wielding hellhounds in the

near-future is considered "highly likely."

"I can't believe this happened," said stunned Catholic Cristina Fontanez,

38, of Petaluma, CA. "She must have been so shocked when, after a lifetime

of good works, she found herself face-to-face with Satan. Instead of being

thrust into the living and redemptive light of Jesus' love for all time

upon her death, she instead found herself being slit from crotch to sternum

and suffering the pain of red-hot instruments of torture repeatedly being

plunged deep into her writhing entrails."

Speculation varies as to what could have caused such a miscarriage of

heavenly justice. While some contend that Mother Teresa's policy of not

administering medication to the sick and dying in her clinics may have

caused some in Heaven to doubt her true compassion, others believe that her

constant speeches against birth control--a contributing factor to mass

overpopulation, poverty and starvation throughout the Third World--may be

to blame.

Still others posit that Teresa may have sinned in her heart at some point

during her long life, qualifying her for eternal damnation despite a

history of good works.

"According to Catholic doctrine, even one moment of lust would be enough to

justify Mother Teresa's banishment to the flame," said Archbishop Janiusz

Wolsczya of Krakow. "It is possible that after years of celibacy and

self-denial, her natural desires for sexual release may have built to a

breaking point. I imagine that sleeping alone on that hard cot all those

years and donating every ounce of her strength to the care of the poor, she

must have been very lonely. The compulsion to masturbate must have been

enormous."

Most observers, however, reject these explanations, firm in the belief that

the eternal punishment is undeserved, the result of simple bureaucratic

error on the part of heavenly officials.

"I promise a full investigation into this matter," the Apostle John, seated

at the right hand of Christ Almighty, told reporters. "If any evidence of

incompetence or error on the part of the officials who conducted Mother

Teresa's afterlife evaluation is found, I assure you there will be serious

repercussions."

Despite such strongly worded statements from Heaven, a majority of

followers on Earth are calling the promise of a full investigation a case

of "too little, too late."

"I feel like this has forever weakened the foundation of my faith," said

73-year-old Giancarlo Rossetti of Milan, one of over 300,000 protesters who

crowded Vatican Square Tuesday to call for an immediate reversal of the

Mother Teresa Hell condemnation. "She was a good woman, and she does not

deserve to have her eyes torn out of their sockets by flaming packs of

ravenous demon-dogs."

Satan, speaking from deep within his fortress in the Hell city of Dis,

described the late Mother Teresa's soul as "succulent and tasty."

(reprinted from The ONION)