Catholic Saints

Mother Teresa’s Road to Sainthood

Fr. Angelo Scolozzi, M.C.III.O July 28, 2020

Scarcely two years after the death of Mother Teresa in September 1997, the Archbishop of Calcutta requested that Pope John Paul II dispense with the five-year waiting period required before beginning the process of beatification and canonization.

St. Teresa of Kolkata gives comfort to a sick man at the Missionaries of Charity home in Kolkata, India, in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/KNA)

Mother Teresa and Francis of Assisi: Two Saints, One Spirit

Franciscan Media July 28, 2020

Every day after Holy Communion, Mother Teresa and her community would say the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis.

The Mother Teresa We Knew

Dan Morris-Young July 28, 2020

Mother Teresa of Calcutta strips you and me of every excuse to do nothing to help the hungry, the sick, the lonely, the unloved, the rejected, the hurting, the confused, the imprisoned.

Radical Saints: Teresa of Calcutta

Melanie Rigney July 9, 2020

Born August 26, 1910, in North Macedonia | Died September 5, 1997, in IndiaCanonized September 4, 2016 | Feast Day: September 5 Teresa’s Radical Gift Mother Teresa was a radical truth speaker—whether it was delivering an anti-abortion lecture as part ...