Fr Caetano Rizzi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:05:03 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Fr Caetano Rizzi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope wants to canonise Mother Teresa during Year of Mercy https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/15/pope-wants-to-canonise-mother-teresa-during-year-of-mercy/ Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:07:57 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=76627 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 Read more

Pope wants to canonise Mother Teresa during Year of Mercy... Read more]]> 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.

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