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Topic: Mother Teresa

Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, including nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. (Salon/Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren
Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, included nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. The canonization of Mother Teresa will be held Sunday in a ceremony to recognize the sainthood of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died aged 87 in India in 1997. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Holy bodies, holy hungers

Rebecca Lauren
Albanian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) at a hospice for the destitute and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 1969. (Terry Fincher/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The dark side of Mother Teresa's order

Ashlie D. Stevens
Mother Teresa (Reuters/Anibal Solimano)

Mother Teresa's fast track

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Mother Teresa (AP/Eddie Adams)

The West's big lie

George Gillett
Mother Teresa (AP/Eddie Adams)

I made Mother Teresa laugh

David Weisberg
Barack Obama, speaking in front of the San Pedro Claver church in Cartagena, Colombia, April 15, 2012. (AP/Carolyn Kaster/Photo montage by Salon)

Faith-fueled forces of hatred

Jeffrey Tayler
Nuns hold up a poster with portraits of Pope John Paul II, left, and John XXIII, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 27, 2014. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

These popes are not saints

Jeffrey Tayler
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Was Mother Teresa a masochist?

Valerie Tarico - Alternet

Kyle Minor
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