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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Love for those society considers"useless" or even a bother led St. Teresa of Kolkata to a courageousdefense of the unborn, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin.Like prophets and saints before her, Mother Teresa would not"kneel down before anyone but the Almighty" and would not bow before"the fashions or idols of the moment," said Cardinal Parolin, Vaticansecretary of state.On the 19th anniversary of Mother Teresa's death, Sept. 5 --her feast day -- the cardinal presided over a Mass in St. Peter's Square togive thanks for the canonization of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.With hundreds of Missionaries of Charity gathered on thesteps of St. Peter's Basilica and several thousand pilgrims in the square,Cardinal Parolin held Mother Teresa up as "a gleaming mirror of God's loveand a marvelous example of service to one's neighbor."Her example, the cardinal said, is a call to all Christians"to convert from being lukewarm and me...
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A tiny village in remote northeast India, the only place in Arunachal Pradesh state that St Mother Teresa visited some 23 years ago, celebrated the new saint’s canonization on Sept. 4 with great fervor and enthusiasm. Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited the tribal village of Borduria in Tirap District on Aug. 2, 1993, some 4 years before her death in 1997. The faithful of the village on Sunday joined the global celebration of Mother Teresa’s elevation to Sainthood, Sept. 4, with a procession, a Mass and installing a statue of the Saint. Local Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao, who was instrumental in Mother Theresa’s visit to the village, presided over a Eucharistic celebration. “It was a very pressing need to bring Mother here”, recalled Miao’s first bishop. “Any child born with physical deformity was considered a curse to the family and so such children were thrown in the river immediatel...
