How the Catholic Church documented Mother Teresa’s two miracles

Catholic nuns attend visitors at the Missionaries of Charity house in Kolkata on Aug. 26. (Photo by Bikas Das/Associated Press)
Hundreds of Catholics have been declared saints in recent decades, but few with the acclaim accorded Mother Teresa, set to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday, largely in recognition of her service to the poor in India.
“When I was coming of age, she was the living saint,” says the Most Rev. Robert Barron, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los An