I don't mean to offend any Catholics, but c'mon people! Seriously.
"A special Vatican committee found that Mother Teresa was involved in a miracle -- a key step in her beatification -- when a 30-year-old Calcutta woman was cured of a stomach tumour.
The reports said Monica Besra was healed after praying to Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Vatican officials refused to comment on Tuesday."
So, M.T. gets credit for the miracle even though she's dead? She decided, "Hey, who needs Jesus? I'll pray to Mother Theresa!"
If Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charities order that ministered to the poor and sick of Calcutta, is beatified, involvement in a second miracle will be needed before she is elevated to saint.
If the pope approves the panel's findings, it will speed up Mother Teresa's beatification, making it likely she will be declared a saint sometime next year.
"She deserved the preferential, fast track to beatification."
Devotees of Mother Teresa began pressing the Vatican soon after her death to speed up the nun's sainthood cause, saying her holiness was clear to many around the world.
Whatever...Don't get me wrong. Mother Theresa was great. But I'm sure she would say herself, "What are you praying to ME for??"