proclaimed Mother Teresa of Kolkata a saint +Achieving sainthood +VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday, hailing her as the personification of maternal love and a powerful advocate for the poor. "We may have some difficulty in calling her 'Saint' Teresa," the pontiff said. "Her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother. "To applause, he added, "Mother Teresa loved to say, 'perhaps I don't speak their language but I can smile'.Pope Francis is driven through the crowd after celebrating a Canonization Mass for Mother Teresa, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. "Among those in the front rows at the mass were 1,500 people from shelters run by the Italian branches of Teresa's order.

Source: Times of India September 04, 2016 15:07 UTC