Mother Teresa is now a Saint. Pope Francis did the honors in a ceremony where he lauded the Saint for her work with the unborn, sick and abandoned.
He also noted that she had shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created”.
Two miraculous cures of the sick after Mother Teresa’s death in 1997 have been attributed to her intercession.
Cardinal Angelo Amato read a brief biography of Mother Teresa’s work, then asked the Pope to canonise her in the name of the Church.
The Pope in response declared, “We declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint and we enrol her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church.”
The pope went on to remark that Mother Teresa spent her days “bowing down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity”.
He added: “She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognise their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created.” He then repeated: “The crimes of poverty they themselves created.”
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