Destitute and diseased people still gather outside Mother Teresa’s clinics in the sprawling Indian city of Kolkata where she dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor.

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity order yesterday welcomed the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and hoped he would quickly canonise the late nun.

POPE JOHN PAUL II named six new saints yesterday, including a woman who became a symbol for abortion opponents because she refused to end her pregnancy despite warnings that it could kill her.

ADMIRERS of Mother Teresa wept with joy and prayed in her adopted hometown of Calcutta yesterday as Pope John Paul II beatified the Saint of the Gutters.

FROM the putrid back alleys of Calcutta to the shanty towns of South Africa, Mother Teresa’s compassion touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of the poorest of the world’s poor.

MOTHER TERESA of Calcutta, the humble nun known as the “saint of the gutters”, was beatified by Pope John Paul II before 300,000 pilgrims massed yesterday in St Peter’s Square.

Pope John Paul II bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honours today on Mother Teresa, the nun who cared for many of the world’s poorest people.

POPE John Paul will approve a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa today, paving the way for the beatification of the Nobel Prize-winning nun, the Missionaries of Charity said.