While top Macedonian officials attended St. Teresa’s canonization Mass at the Vatican, a modest ceremony was held at a small chapel in her hometown of Skopje. About 50 people gathered at the chapel in the Mother Teresa Memorial house to express “gratitude and joy” for her sainthood. Speaking in frontContinue Reading
At the conclusion of the Mass in which he canonized Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope Francis led the faithful in the customary Sunday recitation of the Angelus. In remarks ahead of the Marian prayer, the Holy Father greeted and thanked all those who took part in the day’s celebrations, especiallyContinue Reading
But there was another school of thought: Australian feminist Germaine Greer called her a “religious imperialist” and to British polemicist Christopher Hitchens Mother Teresa was “a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud”.Continue Reading
Who is Mother Teresa of Calcutta? Well Mother Teresa herself gave her identity: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”Continue Reading
Details of that meeting with Mother Teresa more in Delhi than two decades ago are sketchy. But the particular moment is very clear. It must have been late October; winter was making a guest appearance in a city bathed in dust and just out of months of torturous summer sun.Continue Reading
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed happiness over the forthcoming canonisation of Mother Teresa and said every Indian will take pride in the recognition being accorded to her for service to humanity and God. “Every citizen of Indiawill take pride in the recognition being accorded to Mother TeresaContinue 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
Appropriately no doubt, Pope Francis himself offered a simple pathway to understanding Mother Teresa’s lifetime of work. She ran in essence, he said, a “field hospital”. True, the war on poverty will not be won from a field hospital, and nobody should expect it to. But those wounded by theirContinue 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
