“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” These words, spoken by St. Teresa of Calcutta, known more familiarly as Mother Teresa, are typical of the petite ...

I was living in Fiji in the mid-90s. My family is originally from Goa in India but we'd never been. My parents, younger brother and I were born in Africa—we were refugees who fled from Uganda to the ...

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 ...

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In 1979 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Mother Teresa. The Committee considered it right and appropriate to choose Mother Teresa of Calcutta as their person, because she ...

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A recent book shed light on Mother Teresa's struggles with her personal faith. Richard Rodriguez presents an essay on the religious icon and how she wrestled with her beliefs. Our world is bounded by ...

Pope Francis on Sunday officially declared Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint of the Catholic Church in front of thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square – a move the entire world has been waiting ...

A saint made several trips to Minnesota during her lifetime. Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited the Kump family in Golden Valley. “She was very warm,” Theresa Kump-Leghorn said. “She liked to laugh.