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
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
Kindergarten students left imprints of their tiny colored palms on the scrollContinue Reading
On October 27, 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize for Peace which she accepted in the name of the throw away of society. Mother Teresa refused the traditional Nobel Banquet that is hosted for the most recipients as the celebration. This usually costs about $192,000. Mother requested that theContinue Reading
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun is widely seen as a humanitarian icon across the South Asian nation, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying “it is natural for every Indian to take pride” in her sainthoodContinue Reading
I hope each of those flying to the Vatican this weekend, will choose not to have Indian citizens pay for it.
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Rome: Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after her death. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most influential women in theContinue Reading
