Vatican to confer sainthood on Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa will be given Sainthood, Missionaries of Charity spokesperson Sunita Kumar has informed. Thursday, an Italian Catholic newspaper had also reported, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September next year. Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops conference, said on its website that Pope Francis Thursday approved a decree recognising a miracle attributed to her intercession with God. Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, was beatified in 2003 by the late Pope John Paul. Beatification, which requires one miracle is the last step before sainthood. Avvenire said the second miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa, which is required for canonisation, involved the inexplicable healing of a man who was suffering from a deadly brain disease. Family members of the sufferer prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered, leaving doctors at a loss to explain how, the newspaper said. Mother founded the Missionaries of Charity to help the poor on the streets of Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.