Mother Teresa: Saint of the Peripheries

Mother Teresa's upbringing in the Balkans as part of a minority group formed her mission and ministry to the poorest of the poor, beginning in India and expanding throughout the world. Here is a biography that looks at her through the lens of Pope Francis's papacy of the peripheries. The book especially explores her Albanian roots and upbringing in the midst of a Muslim majority population, as well as the complicated political history of the region that made it what it was.