By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary ...

Calcutta, India, Aug 23 (efe_epa). — Mother Teresa, who will be canonized to become Saint Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 4, was a Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship, who founded the ...

After making her First Profession of Vows in May 1931, Sister Teresa was assigned to the Loreto Entally community in Calcutta and taught at St. Mary’s School for girls. On 24 May 1937, ...

On Aug. 17, 1948, she dressed for the first time in her white-and-blue-bordered saree, left the Loreto convent, and entered into the slums of India. Mother Teresa and John Paul II, May 25, 1983 ...

Calcutta University has called Loreto's principal Sister Christine Coutinho and made it amply clear that this rule does not fit in with the university guidelines.

Rev. Gus Puleo: Remembering a ‘Nobel’ saint –… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ...

Sr Teresa McGlinchey, who lived in the Loreto community in Entally, Kolkata with Sr Mooney for several years, said that Sr Mooney was a very competent scientist, artist and writer.

A premier college in West Bengal’s Kolkata issued an apology on Wednesday after facing flak for denying admission to students from non-English medium schools. Loreto College, which is affiliated ...