"Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was probably the most familiar Christian face of our generation," Los Angeles archbishop José Gomez writes in his foreword to The Love That Made Mother Teresa: How Her Secret Visions and Dark Nights Can Help You Conquer the Slums of Your Heart by David Scott. "Her works of love, done for the abandoned and forsaken in a remote city in India, made hers a household name the world over," Archbishop Gomez continues.
Scott, who has had a distinguished career in Catholic journalism and is the author of many books on religion, now works with Archbishop Gomez in Los Angeles. He talks about Mother Teresa, Pope Francis, saintliness, and more in an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, senior fellow at the National Review Institute and editor-at-large of National Review Online.
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