Blessed Mother Teresa parish’s namesake to be canonized

Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, was beatified in 2003 by the late Pope John Paul after the Vatican said an Indian woman’s prayers to the nun rid her of an incurable tumor. “Just heard the good news that Blessed Mother Teresa will be made a Saint in 2016”.

In a statement released today Reverend Brian Kolodiejchuk, who initiated Mother Teresa’s canonisation case, said that 30 minutes before the man was due to undergo surgery, he sat up, awake and without pain.

“This is fantastic news”.

Mother Teresa won the 1979 Nobel Peace prize for her work caring for the poor.

Previously, the late British-born polemicist Christopher Hitchens criticized Teresa’s readiness to accept donations from dictators and her hardline views on abortion and contraception, while Indian rationalists questioned the veracity of her first recognized miracle.

Nicknamed the “Saint of the Gutters”, she dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, one of India’s biggest cities, founding the Missionaries of Charity order of nuns.

Mother Teresa, who was born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia, was known across the world for her charity work. “They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food”.

She is beloved by many in our area, visiting Schuylkill county in 1995.

Francis has made outreach to the poor a priority for the Catholic Church, and years ago when he was a bishop in Argentina he met Mother Teresa and admired her ministry but also her fearlessness in speaking out on behalf of society’s outcasts.

During his September 2014 visit to Albania, Francis confided to his interpreter that he was not only impressed by her fortitude, but in some ways feared it.

The National Catholic Reporter, a leading Church publication, however, reported quoting Father Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesperson, that the date is “only hypothetical and can not be confirmed”.

“And from that he developed a great esteem for her, as a strong woman, a woman able to give courageous testimony”. She died back in 1997.

During his quarter-century papacy, John Paul declared more saints – 482 – than all of his predecessors combined.

BENGAL CM CONGRATULATES MC ON TERESA SAINTHOOD West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday congratulated Missonaries of Charity (MC) on the Vatican decision to elevate Mother Teresa to sainthood.

“But I am grateful to receive [the Nobel Peace Prize] in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone”, she said during her acceptance speech.