"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

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The Holy Cross and Blessed Sacrament parishes in Olyphant and Throop consolidated into one Tuesday, taking on a new identity and becoming one of the first Roman Catholic churches worldwide to name ...

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It's been almost 40 years since Msgr. Patrick Halfpenny saw Mother Teresa when she visited Detroit in 1979 to open a local branch of her religious order of nuns who care for the poor.

Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa on Sept. 4, 2016, giving her the new title of Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The Albanian nun died almost exactly 19 years before her canonization.

Canonization recognizes holiness, not perfection. In elevating Mother Teresa to the honors of the altar, the Roman Catholic Church is not overlooking any of her questionable decisions or practices.

Reynolds, of Mesa, went to Rome for Mother Teresa’s Canonization Mass on Sept. 4, taking along his 15-year-old son Matthew. Reynolds felt that being there “completed the circle” for him.

Re: “Mother Teresa: A saint despite spiritual ‘darkness,’ ” Sept. 1 news story. As your thoughtful article pointed out, Pope Francis’ canonization of Mother Teresa as a saint is t… ...

Applause erupted in St. Peter's Square even before Francis finished pronouncing the rite of canonization at the start of the Mass in St. Peter's Square. For Francis, Mother Teresa put into action his ...

While big, the crowd attending the canonization wasn't even half of the 300,000 who turned out for Mother Teresa's 2003 beatification celebrated by an ailing St. John Paul II.