The story of Edith Stein is a harrowing one. Practicing Judaism in her youth, an atheist in her teen and young-adult years, and, eventually, a baptized Catholic and Discalced Carmelite, God clearly ...

Saint Teresa of Avila continues to fascinate both the Catholic faithful and people from various walks of life. From fashion designer Manolo Blahnik to dictator Francisco Franco, who kept a relic of ...

The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta, or "Mother Teresa," is often held up as a symbol of selflessness and extreme devotion to charity. As the founder of the Missionaries of Charity and recipient of numerous awards ...

ALBA DE TORMES, Spain (AP) — They lined up to see her, silent and wonderstruck: Inside an open silver casket was Saint Teresa of Ávila, more than 440 years after her death. Catholic worshippers have ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently voted nearly unanimously to request that Mother Teresa's feast day be added to the General Roman Calendar as an optional memorial. It ...

Mother Teresa is now St. Teresa. Pope Francis has praised Mother Teresa as the merciful saint who defended the lives of the unborn, sick and abandoned — and who shamed world leaders for the “crimes of ...

The sisters — who usually avoid being photographed or quoted — have made an exception for this special outreach to young people. Fifty-four Missionaries of Charity are in Rome this week for the ...

For nearly a decade, St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School in Carson City has welcomed the community into a breathtaking ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — St. Teresa’s Academy has been a fixture in education since the 1860s—first with its building in Kansas City’s downtown and later at the Brookside campus where it remains today. Dr.

St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick hosted a Thanksgiving Feast at the St. Teresa of Calcutta Early Learning Center on ...