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Modi recalling Mother Teresa in Mann ki Baat is a rebuttal to Mohan Bhagwat and RSS
Sanjay • 9 years agoModi's Sunday remark on Mother Teresa has raised another question — after a year and a half, has Modi responded to Bhagwat’s remark?
Pope's advice: If you don't gossip, you just may become a saint
Ians • 9 years agoSainthood is a "blameless" journey before God and it can't be bought or sold, Pope Francis said.
Is canonising Mother Teresa Vatican's strategy to gain ground in India?
Fp Archives • 9 years agoNo one grudges Mother Teresa’s canonization. But then given how the Vatican has itself violated its own long-established processes of canonization, the whole spectacle is both ironical and tragic.
Didi hails Mother: Mamata expresses happiness over Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood
Fp Archives • 9 years agoWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed happiness over Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood.
Mother Teresa's canonisation will take place on 4 September; Pope Francis approves of sainthood
Fp Staff • 9 years agoPope Francis on Tuesday formally approved Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood and set 4 September as the date for her canonisation.
Pope Francis approves Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood
Fp Archives • 9 years agoMother Teresa will be made a saint on 4 September, Pope Francis announced today, 19 years after the death of the Nobel Laureate
Questions and answers about Mother Teresa and making saints
Fp Archives • 9 years agoThe Catholic Church makes saints to provide role models for the faithful, and Pope Francis has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors in churning them out at a rapid clip. The process is cloaked in secrecy and open to criticism, given that it deals with science-defying miracles, politicized choices and significant sums of money, as was recently revealed in some blockbuster books on Vatican finance.
'Saint of the Gutters': Mother Teresa on the road to sainthood as Pope recognizes second miracle
Fp Archives • 9 years agoPope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the beloved nun to be elevated to sainthood next year.
India's Father Chavara Achen, Sister Euphrasia canonised saints by Pope Francis
Fp Archives • 10 years agoPope Francis declares Father Kuriakose, Sister Euphrasia from India as Saints at Vatican
Fp Archives • 10 years agoPope Francis on Sunday declared Fr Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia Eluventhinkal from India as Saints at Vatican.