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The mercy-filled life: Mother Teresa embodied what Pope Francis teaches Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – If there is one person who immersed herself in the “peripheries” Pope Francis is drawn to, it was Blessed Teresa of Kolkata. If there was one who showed courage and creativity in bringing God’s mercy to the world, like Pope Francis urges, it was the diminutive founder of the Missionaries of Charity. For many people, the Catholic Church’s Year of Mercy will reach its culmination when Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa Sept. 4, recognizing the holiness of charity, mercy and courage found in a package just 5-feet tall. Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, worked closely with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity in his previous positions at the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services. He was at her funeral in 1997, her beatification in 2003 and will attend the Mass where she will be declared a saint. “Where Mother pushed the Missionaries of Charity was to the edge, to the most difficult places,” said the ambassador, who said he visited her houses “all the time, everywhere.” “They were always way out there, see mother teresa, page 12
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Blessed Teresa of Kolkata is pictured with an unidentified woman during a 1976 visit to the U.S.
Missionaries to bus homeless, youth to canonization Mass Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
When the 13 sisters of the Missionaries of Charity convent in Pacifica arrive by bus at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 4 for a Mass celebrating the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, some of the homeless and poor they minister will be on board with them. “We’ve been working on inviting migrant families, young people and others to join us in pilgrimage
Philippines revenge killings stun Catholic leaders
to Holy Doors at the cathedral and attend the thanksgiving Mass,” said Sister Maria Concepcion, local superior of the convent. These include members of Our Lady of Refuge Mission in La Honda and St. Anthony Mission in Pescadero. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is celebrating an 11 a.m. Mass on the morning of the Blessed Teresa’s canonization in Rome. The soon-to-be new saint founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 to care for the “poorest of the poor.”
The Pacifica convent is headquarters for the Western Province of the Missionaries of Charity on the grounds of Good Shepherd parish. The sisters’ outreach includes an AIDS hospice, a home for unwed mothers and the novitiate for all the Americas. The sisters also feed and minister to the homeless in San Francisco. An exhibit on the life of Blessed Teresa will take place in the cathedral’s event center, St. Francis Hall, as follows from Aug. 27-Sept. 3.
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. “What I predicted is happening, and the church is powerless to stop the killings,” Redemptorist Father Amado Picardal, head of the Philippine bishops’ Commission for Basic Ecclesial Communities, told ucanews.com. He said the killings are “already unstoppable,” adding that some church leaders are losing hope. Father Picardal, who has linked the president to a death squad allegedly responsible for the killings of more than 1,400 people, warned of “dark prospects” for the Philippines following Duterte’s election in May. During his campaign for the presidency, Duterte vowed to stop criminality, especially the illegal drugs trade, and corruption in the first six months of his term, warning that his administration would be a “bloody” one. Ucanews.com reported estimates of more than 600 people killed since Duterte was elected in May; 211 of those were murdered by unidentified gunmen. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, president of the bishops’ conference, appealed to Filipinos’ sense of humanity amid the killings. He said he was “in utter disbelief,” adding that the killings “are too much to swallow.” “There is a little voice of humanity in us that I believe is disturbed by the killings,” the archbishop said in a statement read in churches in his archdiocese in early August. He said the “voice of disturbed humanity is drowned out by the louder voice of revenge or silenced by the sweet privileges of political clout.”
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