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Teresa, Mother
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Teresa, Mother, 1910–97, Roman Catholic missionary in India, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, b. Skopje (now in Macedonia) as Agnes Goxha Bojaxhiu. Of Albanian parentage, she went to India at 17, becoming a nun and teaching school in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1948 she left the convent and founded the Missionaries of Charity, which now operates schools, hospitals, orphanages, and food centers worldwide. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003.


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Part Mother Theresa and part Bobby Knight, the Valley's unofficial softball mom dispenses tough love along with milk and cookies in a section of the Valley with a disproportionately large at-risk youth population.
MOTHER'S NATURE PONCE USES TOUGH LOVE, UNDERSTANDING WITH KIDS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Without warning or apology, Kushner, a rabbi, refers to the New Testament, Mother Theresa, G.
The Lord is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm by Nitsch, Kathline / Catholic Insight
While Chatterjee argues that Mother Theresa did not do as much charity as she claims, Sanal Edamaruku of the Indian Rationalist writes that by her work she projected Calcutta and India as a land of beggars and thereby did India incalculable harm.
Mother Teresa: the Final Verdict by William, Xavier / Reviewer's Bookwatch
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