Mother Teresa Quotes
Let's do something beautiful for God.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Something Beautiful for God. Harper & Row, 1971, p. 19.
In 1980 Pope John Paul II issued a general order prohibiting priests from holding civil political positions. Many wondered whether Drinan, a marvelous and popular Congressman, would obey and leave Congress. He announced he was not going to seek election and his colleague immediately after his announcement asked him to share his thinking. This was his response.
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.