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The Unopened Cause
In this world, the petition formally opening the cause for beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta was never submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints following her death in 1997, and no postulator ever pressed the matter through Rome. The absence of a formal cause altered how the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic Church, and the city of Calcutta managed her memory over the following decades.
Diverged 1997 · “Mother Teresa's beatification petition never reaches the Vatican's consideration.”
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TodayMother Teresa remains uncanonized in the present day, venerated widely as a moral figure but without the title "Saint" or a feast day on the universal Church calendar. Calcutta hosts several independent memorial sites rather than a single Vatican-sanctioned shrine, and the Missionaries of Charity operate under a self-governed memorial trust that has at times clashed publicly with the Archdiocese of Calcutta over custody of relics and archives. Scholarly and devotional literature about her continues to grow, but it is produced largely outside any canonical process, giving rise to a looser, more contested public memory than a canonized figure would carry.
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