She was beatified on October 19, 2003, by Pope John Paul II. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.

The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of ...

The Vatican has advanced Mother Mary Teresa Tallon on path to sainthood, where she joins Canton's Rhoda Wise, who is only steps away.

#SeeHer Story airs on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Mother Teresa, known as the ...

Everything Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta did around the world came wrapped as a living pro-life message. “She was a major pro-life figure, from conception to natural death,” reminds Missionary of ...

It’s only 7:30 a.m., but the front door of 54A Lower Circular Road is already open. Outside, a short, bald man dressed in a neat, black-checked shirt and faded gray trousers stands beneath the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of ...

Princess Diana had a wide variety of friends, but one friendship might surprise you: the jet-setting, stylish princess had a friendly relationship with nun and missionary Mother Teresa. The duo ...

For many the canonization of Mother Teresa had long been inevitable. Known the world over as "the living saint," Mother Teresa was officially declared a saint Sept. 4 by Pope Francis in a canonization ...

I was 16-years-old and holding my breath as I backed up against a narrow corridor in a convent in New York City. The door opened and a tiny woman in a sari with blue stripes on the edges was being ...

Acclaimed for dedicating her life to aiding the sick and poor, Saint Mother Teresa was a world-renowned missionary, humanitarian, and Roman Catholic nun, and many of the famous Mother Teresa quotes ...