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Vatican due to approve Mother Teresa's sainthood Mother Teresa to be made a saint in September
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Mother Teresa’s elevation to the Catholic sainthood is expected to be announced on Tuesday by a Vatican committee. Mother Teresa will be made a saint on 4 September, Pope Francis has announced at a meeting of cardinals to give the final approval to several sainthood causes.
Related: As Mother Teresa is made a saint, what does it take to be approved?Related: As Mother Teresa is made a saint, what does it take to be approved?
Pope Francis is expected to sign a decree approving the canonisation of the 1979 Nobel peace prize winner and set a date and venue for it to happen. He had cleared the way in December for sainthood for the Nobel peace laureate, who died in 1997 aged 87.
The Albanian nun and missionary will be one of five candidates for sainthood considered by the Vatican panel on Tuesday but by far the most high-profile. The Albanian nun and missionary was by far the most high-profile of the five candidates for sainthood considered by the Vatican panel on Tuesday.
The canonisation is widely expected to take place on 4 September, the eve of a previously-scheduled celebration of her memory.
What is unclear is whether the pope will bow to appeals from the Catholic church in India and travel to Calcutta for the ceremony or, as Vatican sources say is more likely, preside over one in Rome.What is unclear is whether the pope will bow to appeals from the Catholic church in India and travel to Calcutta for the ceremony or, as Vatican sources say is more likely, preside over one in Rome.
More than 300,000 pilgrims came to Rome in 2003 for Teresa’s beatification – the first step towards sainthood. More than 300,000 pilgrims went to Rome in 2003 for Teresa’s beatification – the first step towards sainthood.
Known across the world, Teresa was awarded the Nobel for her work with the poor, sick, old and lonely in the slums of the Calcutta, one of India’s biggest cities, now known as Kolkata. Known across the world, Teresa was awarded the Nobel for her work with the poor, sick, old and lonely in the slums of Calcutta, one of India’s biggest cities, now known as Kolkata.
She is revered by many Catholics but has also been attacked as a “religious imperialist” who attempted to foist her beliefs on a community in which they had no indigenous roots. She is revered by many Catholics, but her canonisation is not without controversy. Mother Teresa’s work has been questioned for decades by notable critics, who have alleged that the missionary misused funds intended for charity, and that she was a Catholic fundamentalist more concerned with evangelism than with helping the poor access adequate medical treatment.
The negative assessment was underscored by researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Ottawa, who concluded in a 2013 report that the nun did not deserve the saintly reputation she had acquired over her lifetime due to her “rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception and divorce”.
The researchers found that the vast majority of patients who had come to visit Mother Teresa’s missions for the dying had hoped to find doctors to treat them, but instead found unhygienic conditions, a shortage of care, inadequate food and no painkillers.