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August 22, 2001
Mother Teresa's sainthood cause moves to Vatican
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The diocesan stage of Mother Teresa's investigation for beatification has finished and now moves to the Vatican, the Congregation for Sainthood Causes announced.
The congregation said the Archdiocese of Calcutta, India, would formally close its two-year inquiry Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption of Mary.
The inquiry's documentation, as well as results from six other dioceses in which Mother Teresa was active, were expected to "soon arrive in Rome,'' the congregation said in an Aug. 13 statement.
The congregation said it would appoint a "relator,'' an official charged with preparing a position paper on Mother Teresa's holiness, as soon as the diocesan documentation receives formal Vatican recognition.
The Archdiocese of Calcutta also has submitted the results of its inquiry into a "supposedly miraculous cure," the Vatican said.
In May, Archbishop Henry D'Souza of Calcutta said one of the purported miracles he examined was the case of a woman in Raiganj, India, who was cured of cancer.
The archdiocese began its investigation July 26, 1999, less than two years after Mother Teresa's death.
Pope John Paul II waived the normal five-year waiting period before the opening of sainthood causes because of "the widespread reputation of holiness and intercessory power enjoyed by (Mother Teresa) throughout the world," the congregation said.
Mother Teresa's postulator, or official advocate for beatification and canonization, is Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, a priest of the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity.
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