Mother Teresa Research Paper

The Catholic Church going to the peripheries is very important. Luckily, there are many historical Catholics that went to the periphery, but one that really stands out to me is Mother Teresa. When Mother Teresa went to India with the Sisters of Loreto she taught girls at Saint Mary’s High School. Lots of these girls did not come from lots of wealth and were raised in poverty. Mother Teresa wanted to help the girls forget they were poor through education. When she was teaching at Saint Mary’s High School Mother Teresa eventually became principal of the High School. While Mother Teresa was teaching there she stayed fully devoted to her students the entire time. Then during a train ride in India she said she received “a call within a call.” This call was to help the poor in India. In

So Mother Teresa made a new order known as “The Missionaries of Charity”. What Mother Teresa wanted this charity to do was to help people who no one else was helping or who no one else wanted to look after. Mother Teresa opened homes for the dying and she made an open-air school. During the 1950s and the 1960s she made a nursing home, leper colony, health clinics, an orphanage, and a family clinic. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened a home for the dying. When Mother Teresa was at the home for the dying she would spend lots of time with those who were going to pass away very soon. This home for the dying let dying people know that someone cared about them and that their lives mattered. Then Mother Teresa went to New York in 1971 and opened a house of charity. Then Mother Teresa went to Beirut, Lebanon and she went to Christian east beirut and the Muslim west Beirut and helped people from both sides despite their religion. Then Mother Teresa went back to New York in 1985. During this time she opened a home to help those who have a disease known as HIV or AIDS. Sadly, Mother Teresa died September 5th, 1997. Mother Teresa has done many things to help alleviate human suffering throughout her