Communist Catholics criticized her for promoting privatized health care, education and nutrition. For the terminally ill her nuns offered no relief for pain. She made Catholicism into a cult of death and suffering with passivity and abjection of working people a virtue. Lithuania Lithuania's 4 million population is mainly Catholic. Among the Catholics are members of the Communist party of Lithuania.
Communists get about one-third of the vote in general elections.
Most Lithuanians are working class, with 1.3 million in trade unions. During the Soviet period, which started after World War II, the Lithuanians were able to establish universal health care, education, housing, employment, pensions and rational industrial and agricultural growth. The infant mortality rate was 122 per thousand in the 1930s. During the 1960s it was down to 15 per thousand. Not only the Catholics but some among the clergy supported and support communism.