A transparent, white plastic box, placed on Mother Teresa’s tomb at Mother House in Kolkata is nearly filled to the brim with little pieces of paper. As the time for the Friday Mass draws near, more visitors start scribbling hurriedly on the slips of blank paper kept near the boxContinue Reading

It was April 1975. The diminutive figure in the white and blue sari was bent and fragile, yet the hand extended was firm and warm. The private meeting on the upper floors of the Philadelphia archdiocese will be forever etched in my memory. Mother Teresa, the beloved Catholic nun fromContinue Reading

Mumbai: The Catholic Church “holds that the life of every human person is to be respected and treated with dignity from the moment of conception,” hence “the procreation of a new person, whereby the man and the woman collaborate with the power of the Creator, must be the fruit andContinue Reading