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 ...

To Love and Be Loved is, first of all, Mother Teresa’s biography, which Towey interweaves with the story of his own friendship with her. One thread walks us through her simple childhood in ...

Mother Teresa first appeared on the international stage in 1969, when Malcolm Muggeridge, ... (Jon M. Sweeney is the author of the new biography “Teresa of Calcutta: Dark Night, ...

Editorial: Mother Teresa's contributions shine a welcome light on humanity and teach the power of one person. ... What’s more, the title somehow diminishes her remarkable accomplishments.

Mother Teresa, born in North Macedonia in 1910, went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was elevated to sainthood by Pope Francis on Sept. 4, 2016. “We didn’t want to do a ...

Mother Teresa’s Secret Fire unwraps the secret of her ability to bring Christ’s light to a darkened world. More than a biography, this book is a step-by-step explanation, ...

At the time of Mother Teresa’s death in 1997, her Missionaries of Charity included “3,842 sisters, 363 brothers, and 13 fathers operating more than 650 soup kitchens, health clinics, leprosy ...

For decades, Mother Teresa ministered to the poorest of poor on the streets of Calcutta in her signature blue-and-white sari, picking maggots off the face of a diseased outcast or cradling an AIDS ...

Mother Teresa joins a great and complex tradition of remarkable men and women whose achievements resist pietistic celebrations and mundane condemnations. To Me, She Was a Saint on Earth ...

Saint Teresa died on Sept. 5, 1997, at age 87, with a lengthy list of humanitarian accomplishments to her name. Notably, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a global congregation that ...

On March 15, nuns of Missionaries of Charity read a special prayer at Mother Teresa’s tomb in Kolkata, India, in preparation for her canonization. Bikas Das/Associated Press.