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 awards ...

The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of ...

Mother Teresa is now St. Teresa. Pope Francis has praised Mother Teresa as the merciful saint who defended the lives of the unborn, sick and abandoned — and who shamed world leaders for the “crimes of ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently voted nearly unanimously to request that Mother Teresa's feast day be added to the General Roman Calendar as an optional memorial. It ...

(RNS) — Most human beings living in the last quarter of the 20th century knew Mother Teresa by name and appearance and could identify her as the saint of the gutters of Calcutta. She was regularly ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X MAHANOY CITY – A statue of St. Teresa of Calcutta holding a baby was blessed and dedicated ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has hailed St. Teresa of Ávila as exemplar of courage and spiritual motherhood in a letter marking fifty years since the 16th century Spanish mystic was declared the first ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — St. Teresa’s Academy has been a fixture in education since the 1860s—first with its building in Kansas City’s downtown and later at the Brookside campus where it remains today. Dr.