The leader of the USCCB has commended the move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved saint and "contemporary witness" of faith.

There she received the name Sister Mary Teresa after St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In December, she departed for India, arriving in Calcutta on 6 January 1929. After making her First Profession of ...

The elevation of Mother Teresa will change the name of Housatonic's Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish at Corpus ... will give a talk on the newly canonized saint's life at Camp Holy Cross in Goshen.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

and Wisdom of Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Conroy, who went to India in the summer of 1986 as a 21-year-old to work with the Missionaries of Charity, developed an eleven-year friendship with Mother ...

N. 703/24), by means of which the celebration of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, virgin, was inscribed in the Calendar of the Roman Rite on 5 September as an optional memorial. This insertion willed by the ...