VATICAN CITY – 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 poverty ...

Pope Francis lauded the Nobel Peace Prize winner as "a generous dispenser of divine mercy" in his homily Stephanie Petit is a Senior News Editor on the Royals team at PEOPLE. She first joined the ...

Swiss Guards stand in front of a tapestry depicting Mother Teresa of Calcutta before a mass, celebrated by Pope Francis, for her canonisation in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept. 4. Reuters ...

VATICAN CITY -- Thousands of pilgrims thronged to St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of Mother Teresa, the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most unwanted and became the icon of a ...

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 ...

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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 awards ...

She dedicated her life to helping the downtrodden and shaming world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa as a saint before 120,000 Catholic ...