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This is a good website to read the detailed Pre Pontificate and Pontificate biography of John Paul II and his 104 Apostolic Voyages around the world. And also the biography of Pope Benedict XVI; the testimony of Mother Teresa with the homily as well as introductory speech of John Paul II on her beatification; biographies and photos of 15 Indian candidates for Canonization, including Mother Teresa; the list of all 265 Popes etc. There is a book for testimony to add of those who are experiencing miracles by the intercession of John Paul II. Also to post the memories of...

CBS PETITIONED TO PROBE SHOWTIME Catholic League president William Donohue explained today the league’s strategy for dealing with Showtime, the cable network that recently aired a hate-filled episode of “Penn and Teller”: “On May 23, 24 and 27, Showtime’s ‘Penn and Teller’ aired the ‘Holier Than Thou’ episode that has so enraged Catholics, as well as people of all faiths (click here). The obscene assault on Mother Teresa, her Missionaries of Charity and the Catholic Church was arguably the most vicious anti-Catholic fare ever shown on television in the United States. An excerpt of this show was sent to 350...

New York, May. 26, 2005 (CNA) - Shareholders in the media giant, Viacom, will be greeted by many unhappy faces as they enter a meeting at New York’s Marriot Marquis Hotel this afternoon. William Donahue, president of the Catholic League, an organization for religious and civil rights, is leading a charge, railing against the company, and their subsidiary, Showtime, for airing a program which they call “a full frontal assault” on the late Mother Theresa and the Catholic Church. The program, “Holier than thou”, starring magician entertainers Penn and Teller, paints Mother Theresa and her Sisters of Charity as “cruel,...

On May 26, the Catholic League will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. outside the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway and 46th Street in New York City. The press conference will address the vile assault on Mother Teresa that Showtime aired this week in its “Holier Than Thou” episode of Penn and Teller; Showtime is owned by Viacom. The timing and venue of the press conference is intentional: at 2:00 p.m., the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Viacom will begin. Catholic League president William Donohue wrote a news release today that explains the seriousness of this issue. A...

When shareholders of media conglomerate Viacom show up for their annual meeting tomorrow, they'll face the wrath of Catholic League President Dr. William Donahue over a shocking Showtime episode that slandered the late Mother Teresa and her order of nuns in the vilest of terms. According to Donahue, who plans a press conference in front of the hotel in New York City where the Viacom meeting is being held, an episode of Showtime's Penn and Teller show "Holier Than Thou” was a "Nazi-like assault on Catholicism, and on the person the show calls "Mother F***ing Teresa.” Showtime is owned by...

VATICAN CITY, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Pope John Paul, still convalescing after 10 days in hospital, told the world's sick on Friday that their suffering was "precious", but did not deliver his message in person at a special service for sick people. The 84-year-old Pontiff returned to the Vatican on Thursday evening after doctors decided he had recovered from an acute breathing crisis brought on by a bout of influenza. But Vatican officials are taking no risks with his frail health and the Pope missed Friday's commemorative Mass, held to mark the day the Roman Catholic Church dedicates each year...

Mother Teresa “Beatified" with Idolatrous Rites By Cornelia R. Ferreira It was a triumphant day for paganism. Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy had reached the zenith of his career of Hinduizing the Catholic Church, whilst his opponent, the late Indian Resistance leader Victor Kulanday, was resoundingly defeated. It was October 19th, 2003, and in front of an audience of millions (courtesy of television), Mother Teresa of Calcutta was allegedly beatified in a Hinduized papal Mass in St. Peter’s Square. The seeds of this false worship were sown back in 1969 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and the chairman of its...

Mother Teresa's Letter to the US Supreme Court. The following brief was filed recently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey, by Mother Teresa. I hope you will count it no presumption that I seek your leave to address you on behalf of the unborn child. Like that child I can be considered an outsider. I am not an American citizen. My parents were Albanian. I was born before the First World War in a part of what was not yet, and is no longer, Yugoslavia. In...

Home Reagan’s Catholic Connections    PAUL KENGOR On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan almost died at the hands of a bullet fired by John Hinckley. The president was sure that God had spared him for a larger purpose. His feeling was affirmed on April 17, Good Friday, by New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke. "The hand of God was upon you," Cooke told Reagan. Reagan grew very serious. "I know," he replied, before confiding to the Cardinal: "I have decided that whatever time I have left is for Him." Ronald Reagan(1911-2004) As we mark Ronald Reagan's passing this week, many...

Home The Sadness of Life After Abortion    FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS Recently I read an article about the effects of abortion, which included "post abortion syndrome." Could you please explain what that is? Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) falls under the category of "post-traumatic stress disorder." The American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines a post-traumatic stress disorder occurring when "the person has experienced an event that is outside the range of usual human experience that would be markedly distressing to almost anyone." Clearly, abortion, the direct killing of an innocent human life, fits this definition. Consequently, the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical...

The Pill From Hell 12/17/2003 7:29:00 PM By Barbara Kralis - CCI News Today, December 16, 2003, is an important day in the United States. After listening to numerous pro life doctors, bioethicists and leaders warn of the dangers of allowing the abortifacient pill "Plan B" to be sold over the counter, the U.S. advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend allowing the "morning after" contraceptive pill to be sold without a prescription. The pill is intended for use by women within 72 hours after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy. It's incredulous how these US advisors for the FDA...

Mother Teresa's Letter to the US Supreme Court. The following brief was filed recently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey, by Mother Teresa. I hope you will count it no presumption that I seek your leave to address you on behalf of the unborn child. Like that child I can be considered an outsider. I am not an American citizen. My parents were Albanian. I was born before the First World War in a part of what was not yet, and is no longer, Yugoslavia. In...

Archbishop Chaput on Women and the Culture of Life In Address to the Catholic Daughters of America WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 23, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput gave this address on the role of women in building a culture of life. His remarks delivered Sunday were the Centennial Lecture of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, at the Catholic University of America. * * * World, Work and Family: The Role of Women in Building a Culture of Life Archbishop Charles Chaput I want to talk about women today. So naturally I'm going to start by talking about men --...

It is perhaps difficult to think of Pope John Paul II as someone other than the frail figure who struggles against age and illness even as he presides today over the beatification of Mother Teresa. Ah, but to judge John Paul's legacy by only these days is to judge the strength and beauty of a tree by its stark branches in winter. In the summer of his life, in the summer of his papacy, there was a richness and a fullness that forever changed the papacy itself. No, not the theology, not the core beliefs, but the institution and the...

On Sunday, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, placing her on course for eventual canonization as a saint. An estimated crowd of 300,000 cheered the memory of the tiny nun who spent much of her life serving the poor and the dying. The ceremony was not without its critics. Some believe that the Vatican may have cut corners to elevate Mother Teresa more quickly. Others have voiced concerns that, in her eagerness to spread her ministry, she accepted contributions from tainted sources such as Charles Keating. The big problem some people have with the nun from Calcutta is that...

Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II welcomed hundreds of nuns of the Missionaries of Charity order to the Vatican (news - web sites) on Monday, telling them at a special audience a day after beatifying Mother Teresa that a life of charity was the true life of a Christian. John Paul again struggled to get through his remarks, slurring his words and occasionally getting lost in his text. But he did greet dozens of prelates and nuns, and gave a particularly warm welcome to Sister Nirmala, the new superior of the order. "The message of Mother Teresa, now...

I think it was Macaulay who said that the Roman Catholic Church deserved great credit for, and owed its longevity to, its ability to handle and contain fanaticism. This rather oblique compliment belongs to a more serious age. What is so striking about the "beatification" of the woman who styled herself "Mother" Teresa is the abject surrender, on the part of the church, to the forces of showbiz, superstition, and populism. It's the sheer tawdriness that strikes the eye first of all. It used to be that a person could not even be nominated for "beatification," the first step to...

<p>VATICAN CITY - More than a quarter-million people - rich and poor, royal and regular - flooded St. Peter's Square today for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honoring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those forsaken by everyone else.</p>

Oct. 19, 2003. 10:05 AM 300,000 gather for Mother Teresa's beatificationAlbanian nun founded order that cares for world's most destitute NICOLE WINFIELDASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY - More than a quarter-million people — rich and poor, royal and regular — flooded St. Peter's Square today for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honouring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those no one else would. Pope John Paul presided over the open-air mass, but for the first time in a major Vatican ceremony, was unable to utter a word of his homily, leaving other prelates...

VATICAN CITY: Mother Teresa, the humble nun known as the ‘Saint of the Gutters’, has been declared beatified by Pope John Paul II before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims massed in St Peter's Square. Pilgrims, tourists, Catholics and members of other religions had been streaming into St Peter's Square since Sunday night to see the Pope put Mother Teresa on the road to sainthood. A number of people in the crowd, including some Indian residents of Rome, said they were not Catholic but had greatly admired the nun with a wrinkled face but a child's smile. They said that they...

Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 October, 2003, 11:27 GMT 12:27 UK Fans flock to Mother Teresa musical The musical tells the story of Mother Teresa's struggles A musical about the life of Mother Teresa has had audiences flocking to a Rome theatre ahead of the late nun's beatification by the Pope. The show looks back at her five decades of helping the poor in Calcutta, set to reggae, funk and pop songs. About 1,300 people packed the Brancaccio theatre for its first night. "The aim is not to tackle political problems but to portray her most ephemeral aspects," said the show's...

Terri Schiavo received what was supposed to be her final feeding on Wednesday, but Gov. Jeb Bush told her parents that he would again try to stop her court-approved death. Meanwhile, her parents visited after her feeding tube had been removed, accompanied by the Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski, a Roman Catholic priest who visits Mrs. Schiavo weekly, reports The New York Times. "Father Malanowski said he took a scrap from a robe worn by Mother Teresa into Mrs. Schiavo's room and touched her throat, forehead and cheek with it. Mother Teresa is to be beatified on Saturday, and Father Malanowski said...

A clapping chorus line of swaying nuns and a rock'n'roll Mother Teresa took Rome by storm this week in a musical to coincide with her beatification, the last step before sainthood. Mother Teresa, the Musical is one of a series of events being held in advance of her beatification, six years after she died. "I dream, I hope, I pray for you," the sprightly Teresa character sings to dancing members of the chorus representing the sick and destitute in the upbeat production. Say it saint so ... Rosa Lembo raises her voice to heaven as the lead in Mother Teresa,...

Vatican (news - web sites)-issued stamps, a display of her blood, even a musical and cartoon celebrating her life: These are some of the ways Mother Teresa's fans are honoring the nun who will take a step toward sainthood when she is beatified next month. Factories are churning out Mother Teresa rosaries, crucifixes and key chains ahead of the Oct. 19 beatification, and on Tuesday a line snaked around the Vatican post office for a new set of postcard stamps bearing her image. The preparations are steaming ahead at a breathtaking pace, which seems only natural, since Mother Teresa is...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Rumors that Pope John Paul II recently considered proclaiming Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint without first beatifying her did not surprise people who know of the pope's affection and esteem for the small, sari-clad nun. But even more, the rumors were a sign of encouragement to experts pushing for a change in the sainthood process. Beatifications have become almost meaningless, several Vatican officials told Catholic News Service in early September. The church either should return to the pre-1971 practice of having a cardinal, not the pope, preside over the ceremony, or eliminate that stage of...

Priestly celibacy as a sign of the charity of Christ, by Mother Teresa of Calcutta We read in the Scriptures how Jesus came to proclaim the Good News that God loves us. He wants us today to be that love. Jesus said: "You did it to me": I was hungry, naked, homeless and lonely and you did it to me. I call this - the Gospel on five fingers. Everyone is called to love God with their whole heart and soul and mind and strength and to love their neighbour out of love for God. But on the night, before...

Saintly Spirit Remembered, in a Truly Balkan Way By IAN FISHER The statue of Mother Teresa in Skopje, Macedonia. The ethnic free-for-all surrounding her tells much about the Balkans. Questions are being raised about whether her father was Albanian, and whether she was fluent in the language. SKOPJE, Macedonia, Aug. 1 — Mother Teresa will soon become a saint. But this celebration of the divine in a human being has turned out to be as good a moment as any to fight about all the worldly things that usually get fought about in the Balkans: namely, religion, ethnicity and history....

Vatican Gives Instructions to Interested ChannelsVATICAN CITY, JULY 22, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Mother Teresa's beatification, planned for the same day the silver anniversary of John Paul II's pontificate will be celebrated, will be turned into a worldwide television event, Vatican sources say. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has released information for broadcasters regarding coordination of telecasts of the Mass to be celebrated by the Holy Father for the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and to mark the 25th anniversary of his election to the papacy. On Sunday, Oct. 19, from 7:55 a.m.-10:30 a.m. (GMT), John Paul II will celebrate...

Now Mother Teresa is copyrightJuly 24 2003 Mother Teresa did not want her name used without her permission. Photo: AFP Nuns of Mother Teresa's order had obtained a copyright to her name and their logo from Indian authorities, one of the sisters said. They had sought a copyright to prevent commercial groups from using Mother Teresa's name and the logo of the order, said Sister Christie, of the Missionaries of Charity. "Mother House has received the certification of copyright registration. The logo, designed by Mother Teresa, is a rosary-encircled globe with a cross at the centre," she said. "We are...

July 11, 2003 Albanians say Mother Teresa not Macedonia daughter TIRANA, July 11 — Albanian intellectuals incensed by plans to cast Mother Teresa as a ''daughter'' of Macedonia on a Roman monument wrote to the eternal city's mayor on Friday to stop a controversial inscription from being carved in stone. In a letter sent to Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, Albanian writers and politicians accused Balkan neighbour Macedonia of using Mother Teresa's geographical birthplace ''to usurp the figure and deeds of Mother Teresa.'' The battle over who has the right to call Mother Teresa compatriot centres around a Cyrillic inscription planned...

CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - The order of nuns founded by Mother Teresa seeks to copyright her name in a bid to stop other organizations -- from banks to business schools -- trying to cash in on the Nobel peace laureate's image worldwide. "We are seeking legal protection for the use of our logo, and also want such protection for the name of Mother Teresa and that of the Missionaries of Charity," Sister Nirmala, the head of the order, said in a statement. "In her lifetime, Mother Teresa expressed on a number occasions her wish that her name not be used...

This a request for prayer for a young woman in my Parish. She is 32, married, with little girls ages 2 and 4, and is 5 months pregnant with her 3rd child. She was diagnosed last week with Stage 3 lung cancer. She obviously is not going to have chemo because of the baby, but the situation has been made more complicated because it looks as though a tumor is wrapped around her pulmonary artery, so is inoperable. They were taking her in to Dana Farber Cancer Institute yesterday to open her up and do some intense, directed radiation on...

Include Adoration and Confessions at Lateran BasilicaROME, APRIL 11, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The date on which John Paul II beatifies Mother Teresa of Calcutta will coincide with three key celebrations. The three are World Missions Day, the 25th anniversary of the Holy Father's pontificate, and the closing of the Year of the Rosary. According to the organizers of the events related to the Oct. 19 beatification, the invitation that Jesus made to Mother Teresa in 1946 "will resound again to each one of us: 'Come, be my light' in the darkness of human poverty, in a world darkened by sin and...

"I will tell you a secret, since we have just a thousand close friends together, and also because we have the Missionaries of Charity with us... "Not very long ago I said Mass and preached for their Mother, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and after breakfast we spent quite a long time talking in a little room. Suddenly, I found myself asking her -- don't know why -- 'Mother, what do you think is the worst problem in the world today?' She more than anyone could name any number of candidates: famine, plague, disease, the breakdown of the family, rebellion against...

Letter Published Revealing Words of ChristROME, NOV. 29, 2002 (Zenit.org).- It would be hard to understand Mother Teresa of Calcutta's work without being aware of the mystical experiences she had, which were the origin of her foundation of the Missionaries of Charity, and impelled her to don a sari and go out into the streets to care for the poorest of the poor. The visions she had were revealed by the religious in a letter addressed to Archbishop Ferdinand Perier of Calcutta, through her spiritual director, Jesuit Father Celeste Van Exem. The passages of her letter, dated Dec. 3, 1947,...

Mother Teresa voted the 'greatest Indian' - but why not Nehru? That's the question being asked after a magazine poll placed the foreign-born nun ahead of the country's politicians NEW DELHI - Mother Teresa has been voted the greatest Indian since the country's independence in 1947 in a survey which has raised questions as to how a non-Indian nun could outpoll the country's leading politicians. MOTHER TERESA: This Albanian nun, who was dedicated to the poor, outpolled leading figures to clinch top spot. -- AFP She was ranked ahead of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as...