On, Sunday, September 4, 2016, Pope Francis canonized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu AKA “Mother” Teresa of Albania, the Catholic Church officially from then on recognizing her as a “saint.”
ROME — This Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa as a saint, one of the highest honors in the Roman Catholic Church. Tens of thousands of people are expected to fill St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the ceremony to a woman who lived her life dedicated to the poorest of the poor. (CBS News)
The scene will be quite the spectacle, and since world attention will once again be on Rome, the Vatican, the Pope, and Catholicism, it seems to be a good time to remind folks that Catholicism is not Christianity. All born-again believers in Jesus Christ are saints already (1 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 2:19), because Jesus declares us so and not because a Church declared us so. Finally, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu AKA “Mother” Teresa, who died in 1997, is almost certainly in hell. Continue reading “Some hard truths about Mother Teresa”