Mother Teresa's life influenced and inspired a generation. Winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of a worldwide network of more than 4,600 sisters in schools, shelters, clinics, hospitals, leprosia, and hospices, Mother Teresa embodied the compassion and love that Jesus taught. Her life is chronicled here in a masterful account composed of first-hand reports, photographs, and her own timeless words.

Meet the pope who transformed the Church and the world Angelo Roncalli won the hearts and minds of people the world over, including many non-Catholics, with his warm style and commitment to further integrate the Catholic Church and the modern world. "We are not on the earth to guard a museum," he had once said about the Church, "but to tend a blooming garden full of life." Roncalli introduced himself to the crowds in St. Peter's Square on October 28, 1958 with the humble words, "I am called John." Already 77 years old, this son of peasants was expected to oversee a merely caretaker papacy....