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Mother Teresa is a modern symbol of God's mercy for the poor and discarded of this world.

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The way that Pope Francis broke protocol that most people missed

Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, after four of their sisters were killed in Aden, the port city of Yemen, on March 4. Departing from his prepared text during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, he hailed these sist

“This conversation about women is not for women, it is for the church.”

The pope prayed Mother Teresa would accompany into paradise these four “martyrs of charity.”