Mother Teresa in America

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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(Note: this is a re-release of a previously released episode.) Saint Teresa of Calcutta, known in life as Mother Teresa, visited the United States a number of times, usually to open new houses of her order, the Missionaries of Charity. She gave a number of addresses in the U.S., speaking of the duty we all have toward our fellow man to aid one another, singling out abortion as the "greatest destroyer of love and peace." On one occasion, in 1985, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and addressed the National Right to Life Convention. In 1994 she addressed the National Prayer Breakfast, and spoke strongly against abortion and contraception with President Bill Clinton, his wife, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore and his wife, Tipper Gore, in attendance. In 1996 she was made an honorary citizen of the U.S., only the fifth person to receive this honor.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to American Catholic History, brought to you by the support of listeners like you.
0:11.0	If you like this podcast and would like to support our work, please visit American Catholic History.org
0:17.5	slash support. I'm Noelle Heister Crowe. And I'm Tom Crow. Today we're talking about St.
0:23.6	Teresa of Calcutta, more commonly known as Mother Teresa. Now, Mother Teresa wasn't an American,
0:30.6	and she never lived in the United States, but she had an impact on this country in a number of ways.
0:36.6	She really did. She came to the U.S. a number of ways. She really did.
0:42.2	She came to the U.S. a number of times, mainly to establish houses of her order,
0:46.9	the missionaries of charity, and she also gave a few talks and picked up some honors along the way.
0:47.4	Right.
0:52.2	She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
0:55.5	Our best president of the past hundred years, maybe even 150.
1:01.7	I mean, there's an argument to be made. And she was made an honorary United States citizen in 1996. Okay, maybe Calvin Coolidge, but I really won't listen to any others. Anyhow, being made an
1:07.4	honorary citizen is a big deal in secular terms. Only eight people total have received the honor.
1:13.6	The other seven people are Winston Churchill, William Penn and his wife Hannah, the Marquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, Raoulogneberg, and Bernardo de Galvez.
1:24.8	And among the eight of them, only Mother Teresa and Winston Churchill received the honor
1:29.2	during their lifetime. Churchill, of course, was the British Prime Minister during World War II.
1:34.9	Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat during World War II, who saved many thousands of Jews from the
1:40.9	Holocaust. Lafayette, Galvez, and Pulaski were important leaders during the
1:45.6	American Revolution and will most likely do episodes on at least a couple, if not all three of them,
1:51.8	in the future. Then William and Hannah Penn were the founders of the Pennsylvania colony.
1:56.2	Yeah, so that's a pretty rare company that she's in. Yes, in a purely human sense.
2:00.2	She also received the Nobel Prize and many other awards for many governments and international
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