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Empire State Building Won't Light Up for Mother Teresa

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:48:00 CDT

New York City's Empire State Building said "yes" to Mariah Carey, dog shows, cancer charities—even the 60th anniversary of communist China. But the landmark skyscraper's owners have declined to illuminate it in honor of the late Mother Teresa. Catholic League President Bill Donohue said his lay advocacy group requested...

Check Out the 2010 Stamps

M. Morris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:48:38 CST

Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa, Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer, and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on US postage stamps next year. Other new stamps will honor baseball's Negro Leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the AP reports....

White House-Fox Spat Now Involves ... Mao

John Johnson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:23:31 CDT

That was quick. The White House sent communications director Anita Dunn after Fox over the weekend, and now an old video has surfaced—much to the delight of Glenn Beck and others—in which she calls Mao one of her "favorite political philosophers." In a speech to high school students,...

India Won't Hand Over Mother Teresa's Remains

Kevin Spak — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:50:00 CDT

Mother Teresa isn’t going anywhere, say Indian authorities. Teresa’s parents were from Albania, and the country had requested her remains. Macedonia, where Teresa grew up, may also want the body ahead of the 100th anniversary of her birth next year. “Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting...

Will Kidney Stone Make Teresa a Saint?

Asta Hostetter — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:49:04 CDT

The disappearance of a half-inch-long kidney stone in the uterer of an Indian priest may be the second miracle required for Mother Teresa to become a saint. On the 10th anniversary of her death last month, the priest, who was scheduled for surgery to remove the stone the next day,...

Thousands Honor Mother Teresa

Sam Gale Rosen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:52:19 CDT

Thousands visited Kolkata (Calcutta), India, today to remember Mother Teresa 10 years after her death. At the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity, where the nun lived and died, the local archbishop led a Mass where rich and poor joined to pray for her, Reuters reports. "I hope she is...

Mother Teresa Tormented by Long, Dark Night of The Soul

Kevin Spak — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:01:24 CDT

Even as she was selflessly ministering to the poor, Mother Teresa felt nothing of God’s presence, according to stunning personal letters published in a new book and this week’s TIME magazine. The nun wrote of a great “silence and emptiness” and the “pain and darkness” in her soul during a...