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 ...

Saint Teresa of Avila continues to fascinate both the Catholic faithful and people from various walks of life. From fashion designer Manolo Blahnik to dictator Francisco Franco, who kept a relic of ...

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 ...

Pope Francis lauded the Nobel Peace Prize winner as "a generous dispenser of divine mercy" in his homily Mother Teresa, the Albanian-born nun who dedicated her life to working with the poor in India, ...