VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the tiny nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church's highest honors ...

In a decree signed on Dec. 14, Pope Francis authorized the beatification of Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), who helped to expand the Discalced Carmelites to France and Belgium. Also declared ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For many of the poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint. Many at the Vatican would agree, but the Catholic Church nevertheless has a grueling ...

The corpse of Saint Teresa of Jesus, who died nearly 500 years ago, has been displayed to the public for the first time since 1914. Saint Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Avila, died 440 years ...

A cancer patient and a coma victim credit her for their recovery. "You have to accept that there are things that science cannot explain," says an... Hundreds of Catholics have been declared saints in ...

VATICAN CITY -- Mother Teresa, the tiny, stooped nun who cared for the poorest of the poor in the slums of India and beyond, will be declared a saint next year after Pope Francis approved a miracle ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church's highest honors just ...

Last week, by my rough calculations, Mother Teresa became the 10,804th Catholic saint. However, I have a much shorter list of Catholic saints I gladly venerate, a list that includes Augustine, Anselm, ...

ROME (Reuters) - As the Roman Catholic Church prepares to declare Mother Teresa of Calcutta officially a saint, the man the Church believes she miraculously intervened to rescue from the brink of ...

This week the Catholic News Service reported that the cause for the canonization of Mother Teresa could “cross its last hurdle” if the Vatican validated a cure reported by a priest in Guwahati, India, ...

Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors just two decades after ...