Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa did not disclose her order's financial situation except where she was required to do so by law.
. See Missionaries of Charity for a detailed discussion of these allegations. Coolidge appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:. It has been alleged by former employees of Mother Teresa's order, including ex-nun Susan Shields, that Teresa refused to authorize the purchase of medical equipment, and that donated money was instead transferred to the Vatican Bank for general use, even if it was specifically earmarked for charitable purposes.
. In contrast to the conditions at her homes, Mother Teresa sought medical treatment for herself at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India, drawing charges of hypocrisy from critics such as Hitchens. [11].

Mother Teresa herself referred to the facilities as "Houses of the Dying". An academic conference on Coolidge was held July 30-31, 1998, at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library to mark the 75th anniversary of his lantern-light homestead inaugural. Similar points of view have also been expressed by some former volunteers who worked for Teresa's order. [10]. There have been a series of other reports documenting inattention to medical care in the order's facilities. The State of Vermont dedicated a new historic-site visitors' center nearby to mark Coolidge's 100th birthday on July 4, 1972. The formulary at the facility Fox visited lacked strong analgesics which he felt clearly separated Mother Teresa's approach from the hospice movement. Coolidge is buried beneath a simple headstone in Notch Cemetery, Plymouth Notch, Vermont, where the family homestead is maintained as a museum.

Fox conceded that the regimen he observed included cleanliness, the tending of wounds and sores, and kindness, but he noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking". Shortly before his death, Coolidge confided to an old friend: "I feel I no longer fit in these times.". Fox specifically held Teresa responsible for conditions in this home, and observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. Prior to his death, Coolidge felt disappointed about Hoover's re-election defeat, after which his health began to decline very rapidly. Dr. in Northampton, Massachusetts on January 5, 1933 at the age of 60. He observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors in the hospice. He died suddenly of coronary thrombosis at his home, "The Beeches," at 12:45 p.m.

Robin Fox, then editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". Coolidge published an autobiography in 1929 and wrote a syndicated newspaper column, "Calvin Coolidge Says," from 1930-1931. In 1991, Dr. [9]. Many of Teresa's donors were evidently under the impression that their money was being used to build hospitals. In his post-White House years, Coolidge served as chairman of the non-partisan Railroad Commission, as honorary president of the Foundation of the Blind, as director of New York Life Insurance Company, as president of the American Antiquarian Society, and as trustee of Amherst College. Some defenders of the order argue that missionary activity—already declared in the name of the order—was a central part of Teresa's calling. Coolidge did not seek renomination; he announced his decision with typical terseness: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." After leaving office, he and wife Grace returned to Northampton, Mass., where his political career had begun.

He stated, for example, that none of the eight facilities that the Missionaries of Charity run in Papua New Guinea have any residents in them, being purely for the purpose of converting local people to Catholicism. The treaty, ratified in 1929, committed signatories including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another." [8]. Chatterjee alleged that many operations of the order engage in no charitable activity at all but instead use their funds for missionary work. A notable foreign-affairs initiative of the Coolidge administration was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, named for Coolidge's Secretary of State, Frank Kellogg, and for French foreign minister Aristide Briand. According to a Stern magazine report about Mother Teresa, the (Protestant) Assembly of God charity serves 18,000 meals daily in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), many more than all the Mission of Charity homes together. Did he support these measures while president? No, because in the 1920s, such matters were considered the responsibilities of state and local governments." [7]. Chatterjee added that the public image of Mother Teresa as a "helper of the poor" was misleading, and that only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes. Although some later commentators have dismissed Coolidge as a doctrinaire, laissez-faire ideologue, historian Robert Sobel offers some context based on Coolidge's sense of federalism: "As Governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge supported wages and hours legislation, opposed child labor, imposed economic controls during World War I, favored safety measures in factories, and even worker representation on corporate boards.

I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.". During his Presidency, the United States experienced a wildly successful period of economic growth: the so-called "Roaring Twenties." Coolidge not only lowered taxes, but also reduced the national debt. In Hitchens' interpretation, Teresa's own words on poverty proved that "her intention was not to help people." He quoted Teresa's words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. Coolidge was the last President of the United States who did not attempt to intervene in free markets, letting business cycles run their course. Christopher Hitchens described Mother Teresa's organization as a cult which promoted suffering and did not help those in need. Coolidge made use of the new medium of radio and made radio history several times while president: his inauguration was the first presidential inauguration broadcast on radio; on February 12, 1924 he became the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio and on February 22 he also became the first to deliver such a speech from the White House. Critics assert that someone held to be a "living saint" should be held to a higher standard of behavior. He was easily elected President of the United States in his own right in 1924.

They allege that similar standards are not applied to other companies and individuals who have had dealings with Maxwell and Keating. [6]. Supporters of Mother Teresa see charges such as those above as clear examples of double-standards and attempts of "guilt by association". Occasionally, he would flip through the entire stack and announce, "I have no questions today." The reporters were not allowed to quote him directly, or even to attribute his remarks to "a White House spokesman." It was nothing like today's open, sometimes disputatious press conferences. There is no suggestion that she was aware of any theft before accepting the donation in either case; criticism instead focuses on Teresa's plea for leniency in the Keating case, her refusal to return the money, and the lack of media investigations of her relationships to these individuals. When reporters were admitted to his office, he would go through the slips, discarding any he had no desire to address. She also accepted money from the British publisher Robert Maxwell, who, as was later revealed, embezzled UK£450 million from his employees' pension funds. Louis Lyons, a Washington newsman in the 1920s and later an official of Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, recalled that Coolidge required all questions to be submitted in advance, written on slips of paper.

The district attorney responded in private and asked her to return the money, which she declined. [5] Coolidge's press conferences, however, reflected his reticent personality with a vengeance. Teresa interceded on his behalf and wrote a letter to the court urging leniency. Roosevelt who averaged about 6.9. Critics also cite the case of Charles Keating, who stole in excess of US$252 million in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s, and who had donated $1.25 million to Mother Teresa's cause. He also managed to hold 520 press conferences, averaging 7.8 per month, somewhat higher than Franklin D. By the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity had houses in most Communist countries. Making use of the new medium of radio, he delivered an address about once a month.

Critics said her actions compromised her perceived moral authority through unwise and controversial political associations; her supporters defended such associations, saying she had to deal with political realities of the time in order to lobby for her causes. Even though Coolidge was said to be somewhat tight-lipped, he delivered more speeches than any other president up to that time. In 1987 Teresa visited Albania and visited the grave of the former Communist leader Enver Hoxha. Upon telling Coolidge of her wager, he replied simply with the words "You lose."[4] However another one of Coolidge's dinner guests had this to say "I cannot help feeling that persons who complained about his silence as a dinner partner never really tried to get beyond trivialities to which he did not think it worth while to respond.". There she said that the Duvaliers "loved their poor," and that "their love was reciprocated.". It is said that a White House dinner guest once made a bet with her friends that she could get the president to say at least three words during the course of the meal. In 1981, Teresa flew to Haiti to accept the Legion d'Honneur from the right-wing dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, who, after being ousted, was found to have stolen millions of dollars from the impoverished country. He said that "when he died, the glory of the Presidency went with him.".

Or you do not believe in it, and the gesture is as innocent and well-meaningly innocuous as chasing a fly away with a wave of the hand.". People who knew the President said he never fully recovered from his son's death. Simon Leys, in a letter to the New York Review of Books, wrote: "Either you believe in the supernatural effect of this gesture – and then you should dearly wish for it. After that, Coolidge, a man of few words, who had already earned the nickname "Silent Cal," became more withdrawn. Some of Mother Teresa's defenders have argued that baptisms are either soul-saving or harmless and hence the criticisms would be pointless (a variant of Pascal's Wager). died. Critics have argued that patients were not provided sufficient information to make an informed decision about whether they wanted to be baptized and the theological significance of a Christian baptism. The blister became infected, and Calvin, Jr.

So 29,000 have died in that one house [in Kalighat] from the time we began in 1952.". Before his election in 1924, Coolidge's younger son, Calvin, Jr., contracted a blister from playing tennis on the White House courts. We ask the person, do you want a blessing by which your sins will be forgiven and you receive God? They have never refused. Calvin Coolidge was in Vermont, the morning of August 3rd (EST). Peter. His father, a notary public, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp; Coolidge was resworn by a federal official upon his return to Washington, D.C. We call baptism ticket for St. Coolidge was visiting at the family home, still without electricity or telephone, when he got word of Harding's death.

Peter, as we call it. Upon Harding's death, Coolidge became President on August 2, 1923. not one has died without receiving the special ticket for St. Harding was inaugurated on March 4, 1921, and served until August 2, 1923. In a speech at the Scripps Clinic in California in January 1992, she said: "Something very beautiful.. Roosevelt in a landslide, 60.36 to 34.19 percent (404 to 127 in the electoral college). Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to baptize dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. Cox and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.

No hospitals were ever built. The Harding-Coolidge ticket won handily against Ohio Governor James M. Hitchens alleged that Teresa was glad to suggest to donors that the money went to aid and the building of healthcare facilities for the poor in India and elsewhere, while evidence points instead to it being spent largely on missionary work in Africa, with large funds at Teresa's discretion. However, convention delegates stampeded and nominated Coolidge. Neither Mother Teresa nor the Vatican has ever revealed how much money her order received, nor what it was spent on; estimates range into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Party leaders wanted to nominate Wisconsin Senator Irvine Lenroot for vice president. Chatterjee himself published The Final Verdict in 2003, a less polemic work than those of Hitchens and Ali, but equally critical of Teresa's operations. Harding of Ohio.

The next year, Hitchens published The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, a pamphlet which repeated many of the accusations in the documentary. Coolidge made a half-hearted effort to secure the Republican presidential nomination in 1920, losing to Senator Warren G. In 1994, two atheist British journalists, Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ali, produced a critical British Channel 4 documentary, Hell's Angel, based on Chatterjee's work. he later wrote to labor leader Samuel Gompers, "there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime." [2][3]. Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and other practices of Teresa's order. In 1919, Coolidge gained national attention when he ordered the Massachusetts National Guard to forcefully end the Boston Police Department strike. An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Dr. He was lieutenant governor of the state from 1916-1918, and Governor from 1919-1920.

276.). Coolidge was elected mayor of Northampton in 1910 and 1911, was a member of the State senate 1912-1915, serving as president of that body in 1914 and 1915. (Chatterjee, p. Grace's reply was "Did you marry me to darn your socks?" Without cracking a smile and with his usual seriousness, Calvin answered, "No, but I find it mighty handy."[1]. Mother Teresa's comments were even criticized outside India within Catholic media. Not long after their marriage Coolidge handed her a bag with 52 pairs of holey socks. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. She was talkative and fun-loving and Coolidge was quiet and serious.

There are more jobs. They were complete opposites personality-wise. After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. In 1905, Coolidge married Grace Anna Goodhue. However, when Diana, Princess of Wales divorced, she spoke approvingly of it in a magazine interview. He practiced law in Northampton, Massachusetts, and was a member of the city council in 1899, city solicitor from 1900-1902, clerk of courts in 1904, and representative from 1907-1908. Teresa also campaigned tirelessly against divorce, insisting it should be made illegal; she organized an unsuccessful campaign to keep the Irish ban on divorce in 1996. He attended Amherst College, in Massachusetts, graduating in 1895.

While this stance is in line with that of the Roman Catholic Church, which asserts natural family planning is the only acceptable form of birth control, even in cases where conception is the result of sexual abuse or rape, her critics assert that Teresa dogmatically refused to acknowledge the related problems of overpopulation, especially in cities like Calcutta. He dropped John from his name upon graduating from college. because it is pure killing.". Coolidge was the only president to be born on the 4th of July (Independence Day). She characterized her views later when asked in 1993 about a 14-year-old rape victim in Ireland, "Abortion can never be necessary.. and Victoria Moor. Even in these circumstances, she asserted her rejection of abortion by publicly renouncing abortion as an option and by calling upon the women left behind to keep their unborn children. He was born in Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont on July 4, 1872 to John Calvin Coolidge, Sr.

In the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War, it was determined that more than 450,000 women in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had been systematically raped, giving birth to a few thousand war-babies. . Because if a mother can kill her own child, what will prevent us from killing ourselves or one another? Nothing.". Harding. In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, she declared, "Abortion is the worst evil, and the greatest enemy of peace.. John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the twenty-ninth Vice President (1921-1923) and the thirtieth President of the United States (1923-1929), succeeding to that office upon the death of Warren G. Mother Teresa frequently spoke against abortion and artificial contraception in meetings with high level government officials. Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum.

A second accepted miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization. Wombats and Such: Calvin and Grace Coolidge and Their Pets. [3] Teresa was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003 with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Coolidge effect. The issue of the alleged miracle proved controversial in India around the time of Mother Teresa's beatification. presidential election, 1924. Everything has changed for the better." [2]. U.S.

Now my children are being educated with the help of the nuns and I have been able to buy a small piece of land. presidential election, 1920. Our situation was terrible and we didn't know what to do. U.S. A story in The Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying: "It was her miracle healing that cured my wife. "There is no right to strike against the public safety of anybody, anywhere, any time."*. Besra's husband later withdrew his objections and attributed the healing to a miracle. "The chief business of the American people is business."*.

The doctors who treated Monica Besra denied the claims of a miracle healing and said that they had come under pressure from the Missionaries of Charity to acknowledge that the healing process was the result of a miracle. "I do not choose to run for President in 1928.". According to Monica Besra in TIME Asia [1], records of her treatment were removed by a member of the order from the hospital and are now with a nun. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose."). Besra's husband initially said that the tumor was cured by later hospital treatment. "You lose." (His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. If the foundation be firm, the foundation will stand.".

In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. We do not need more law, we need more religion. Following Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. We do not need more government, we need more culture. Her life-long devotion to the care of the poor, the sick, and the disadvantaged was one of the highest examples of service to humanity.". We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.

She is peace in the world." Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan said that Teresa was "A rare and unique individual who lived long for higher purposes. "We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, for example, said: "She is the United Nations. "The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.". The former U.N. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.". Her death was widely considered a great tragedy within both secular and religious communities. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Mother Teresa was granted a full state funeral by the Indian Government, an honor normally given to presidents and prime ministers, in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, an associated brotherhood of 300 members, and over 100,000 lay volunteers, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, says he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa shortly before she died because he thought she was being attacked by the devil. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

On March 13, 1997 she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, just 9 days after her 87th birthday. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.". She underwent heart surgery, but it was clear that her health was declining. "Patriotism is easy to understand in America. Later that year, in August, she suffered from malaria, and failure of the left heart ventricle. "I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.". In April 1997, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. "Collecting more taxes than absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.".

Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the Missionaries of Charity. Signed Revenue Act of 1928. A secret ballot vote was carried out, and all the nuns, except herself, voted for Mother Teresa to stay. Signed Radio Act of 1927. She offered to resign her position as head of the order. Signed Revenue Act of 1926. In 1991, returning to her home country, she opened a home in Tirana, Albania. Signed Revenue Act of 1924.

In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia while in Mexico, she had further heart problems. Signed Immigration Act of 1924. After a second attack in 1989 she received a pacemaker. Harlan Fiske Stone - 1925. In 1983 Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome, while visiting Pope John Paul II. Harding died in California, August 2nd (PST),. In 1982, Mother Teresa persuaded Israelis and Palestinians, who were in the midst of a skirmish, to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 mentally-handicapped patients from a besieged hospital in Beirut. Note: Warren G.

When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple: "Go home and love your family." In the same year, she was also awarded the Balzan Prize for promoting peace and brotherhood among the nations. In 1979 Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace." She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $6,000 funds be diverted to the poor in Calcutta. In 1972 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding. Other awards bestowed upon her included a Kennedy Prize (1971), the Albert Schweitzer International Prize (1975), the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom (1985) and the Congressional Gold Medal (1994), honorary citizenship of the United States (November 16, 1996), and honorary degrees from a number of universities.

In 1971 Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. Muggeridge later converted to Catholicism. Others in the crew thought it more likely ascribable to a new type of Kodak film. Muggeridge claimed this was "divine light" from Mother Teresa herself.

After returning from India, however, the footage was found to be extremely well-lit. During the filming of the documentary, footage taken in poor lighting conditions, particularly the Home for the Dying, was thought unlikely to be of usable quality by the crew. Her fame can be in large part attributed to the 1969 documentary Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge and his 1971 book of the same title, which is still in print. By the early 1970s, Mother Teresa had become an international celebrity.

In answer to the requests of many priests, in 1981 Mother Teresa also began the Corpus Christi Movement for Priests. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded in 1963, and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in 1976. Mother Teresa's work inspired other Catholics to affiliate themselves with her order.

In addition, the first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York. The order's first house outside India was in Venezuela, and others followed in Rome and Tanzania, and eventually in many countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe, including Albania. Teresa's order started to rapidly grow, with new homes opening all over the globe. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa's request to expand her order to other countries.

The order soon began to attract both recruits and charitable donations, and by the 1960s had opened hospices, orphanges and leper houses all over India. Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for lepers called Shanti Nagar (City of Peace), and an orphanage. With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, a free hospice for the poor. In October 1950 Teresa received Vatican permission to start her own order, which the Vatican originally labeled as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, but which later became known as the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was to care for (in her own words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.".

Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorities. She then started an open-air school for homeless children. She quit the high school and, after a short course with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. In 1948 she received permission from Pope Pius XII, via the Archbishop of Calcutta, to leave her community and live as an independent nun.

In September 1946, by her own account, she received a calling from God "to serve Him among the poorest of the poor.". She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impression on her. Mary's High School in Calcutta, becoming its principal in 1944. From 1930 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught geography and catechism at St.

She took her final vows in May 1937, acquiring the religious title Mother Teresa. In 1931, she made her first vows there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of Teresa of Avila and Thérèse de Lisieux. After a few months training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin she was sent to Darjeeling in India as a novice sister. She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls.

At 18, the Vatican granted Teresa permission to leave Skopje and join the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns in Rathfarnham with a mission in Calcutta. She was a member of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. She recounted that she felt a vocation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in India. Little is known of Teresa's early life except from her own reminiscences.

They were Catholics, even though most Albanians are Muslim and the majority of the population in their native Macedonia are Macedonian Orthodox. Her parents, Nikollë (Kolë) and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, came from the city of Prizren in the south of Kosovo. Her parents had three children, and Agnes Gonxhe was youngest. Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Üsküb, a town in the Ottoman province of Kosovo (now Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia), where her father was a successful merchant.

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. While for some, Teresa was the embodiment of a "living saint," others such as Christopher Hitchens, who believed her to be "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud," have raised questions about her public statements, working practices, political connections, and funding. Teresa was also known for her books about Christian spirituality and prayer, some of which were written together with her close friend Frère Roger.

She was the first and only person to be featured on an Indian postage stamp while still alive. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003, hence she may be properly called Blessed Teresa by Catholics. She was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1996 (one of only six). Teresa was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Her work among the poor of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and it is widely expected she will quickly be canonized. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 27, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Albanian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity.