Pope’s Albania visit: Vatican silence on Mother Teresa regretted

The professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, with a doctorate from Durham University in 1997, claims: “One of the reasons why Mother Teresa’s cause for canonization has stalled is due to the revelations about her deep distress in experiencing the ‘dark night of the soul’; this often forced her to doubt both God’s existence...

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Nënë Tereza (1910 - 1997)

“Me gjak jam shqiptare; me nënshtetësi, indiane. Përsa i përket besimit, jam murgeshë katolike. Sipas thirrjes, i përkas botës. Por zemra ime i përket plotësisht Zemrës së Krishtit"....

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British Scholar campaigns for Mother Teresa sainthood

Professor Alpion emphatically says: “The issue is not simply to add another saint to the Catholic Church but a saint with a difference. As a sociologist I am now convinced that Mother Teresa’s ‘spiritual aridity’ should not be held against her canonization; on the contrary, in my view, it’s mainly on this account why she should be canonized.” ...

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A golden moment for Germany that may not last

Germany has a habit of winning the World Cup at symbolic moments. Victory in 1954 – captured in the film, The Miracle of Bern – allowed Germans a moment of pride and redemption after defeat and disgrace in 1945. A second victory in 1974 went to a West Germany whose “economic miracle” had, by then, allowed it to regain its status as one of the world’s most advanced nations....

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