Deviating from his homily Sunday, Francis acknowledged it’ll be hard for admirers to make the switch since Mother Teresa’s saintliness is “so close to us.” As the crowd erupted in applause, he said: “So tender and rich that spontaneously we will continue to say Mother Teresa.” ___ 12:30 a.m. SomeContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the Rite of Canonization for Mother Teresa of Calcutta, at a Solemn Mass offered in St Peter’s Square. During his homily, the Holy Father said, “Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself availableContinue Reading
Crowd of more than 100,000 gathers in St. Peter’s Square for proclamationContinue Reading
Tagum: A strong earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines on Sunday, briefly panicking residents, the government volcanology office said. The 6.0-magnitude quake rocked the southern island of Mindanao but there were no initial reports of damage or casualties, the civil defence office said. The US Geological Survey put theContinue Reading
Vatican City: “We are grateful to God and to Pope Francis, who proclaimed the Year of mercy and chose Mother Teresa as an ‘icon of mercy’. Mother Teresa’s canonization is an opportunity to spread the message of the Gospel and God’s mercy: we hope that the grace of mercy reachesContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute. Choosing “to not see hunger, disease, exploitedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Mother Teresa, who died in Kolkata, India, 19 years ago, will be formally declared a Saint of the Catholic Church by Pope Francis at a Vatican ceremony on Sunday. David Willey, who has reported from Rome for the BBC during five decades, tells how he once spent anContinue Reading
Vatican City:A personal encounter with Mother Teresa and her work serving the poor and the dying led a young Japanese man on a journey of faith and conversion. “I was born into a Buddhist family; I didn’t know about Jesus, Christianity, Catholicism or anything,” Missionaries of Charity Father Francisco AkihiroContinue Reading
Alois Gumbar is one of the last living relatives of Mother Teresa. After years of waiting, he will attend the canonization ceremony of his aunt on September 4. Katerina Blazevska visited him in Skopje. Alois Gumbar is a famous goldsmith in Skopje, the Macedonian capital and birthplace of Mother Teresa,Continue Reading
Vatican City: The Brazilian man whose “miraculous” cure from a brain infection paved the way for Mother Teresa’s canonization this weekend said he is grateful for his life but doesn’t feel particularly chosen by God. Rather, Marcilio Haddad Andrino told a Vatican press conference Friday he is just one exampleContinue Reading
