At Christmas in 1996, Mother Teresa told us that after our work we were to go out into the streets and sing carols. Some of the volunteers weren't so keen, but we did what she said. You did not argue ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta, or "Mother Teresa," is often held up as a symbol of selflessness and extreme devotion to charity. As the founder of the Missionaries of Charity and recipient of numerous ...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta arrives in Rome to meet Pope John Paul II on May 16, 1997. The Nobel prizewinner died September 5, 1997 from cardiac arrest.

Mother Teresa’s successor has said the overall vision of the soon-to-be-canonized founder of the Missionaries of Charity was that everyone is “infinitely loved by God and all are created to ...

Calcutta, India, Aug 23 (efe_epa). — Mother Teresa, who will be canonized to become Saint Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 4, was a Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship, who found… ...

CALCUTTA, India -- The destitute and the diseased still gather outside Mother Teresa's clinics in this sprawling city in eastern India, where the nun known simply as "Mother" dedicated her ...

Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint in highlight of his Holy Year of Mercy on Sunday during a canonization ceremony in front of tens of thousands of people at Peter's Square.

O n Sunday, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. This is to some extent pro forma, but the Catholic Church has long been big on forma, for good reasons.

Mother Teresa was awarded more than 120 awards and honors both during her lifetime and after she passed away. Some of these include the Padma Shri in 1962, the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962 ...

On 10 September 1946 during the train ride from Calcutta to Darjeeling for her annual retreat, Mother Teresa received her “inspiration,” her “call within a call.” ...

Mother Teresa, known now as St. Teresa of Calcutta, shown with an Indian child in 1977, spent her life caring for the sick, poor and homeless. RNS archive photo Jon M. Sweeney ...

Residents spoke lovingly of the nun who put their city on the map. "Mother has made our city famous," said 50-year-old Ramesh Ahuja, ... "At present the main attraction in Calcutta is Mother Teresa.