Why do they call her Mother Teresa?

Mother is the name given to the leader of a religious order of nuns, but even before she founded the Missionaries of Charity, she was a teaching sister of Loretto. The nuns of that order are addressed as "Mother" when they were fully professed. When she took her first vows she was called Sister Teresa. read more

Answer: Mother Teresa's "call" was caring for the sick and poor. In 1952, she established a hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity. At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters and hundreds of thousand of volunteers working in hundreds of centres around the world. read more