Pope Francis has reportedly voiced a desire to canonise Blessed Teresa of Calcutta during the upcoming Year of Mercy.
Fr Caetano Rizzi, who works in the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, said the Pope “wants to beatify and canonise men and women that were a sign of mercy for the world in this Jubilee (Year)”.
Because Mother Teresa is a model of mercy, “there’s a certain urgency in her process”, Fr Rizzi said.
The Vatican is studying the case of a Brazilian man inexplicably cured of brain abscesses, which could be the miracle that leads to the canonisation of Mother Teresa.