Did Mother Teresa cure any disease?

Answer 1

A:No. Mother Teresa provided palliative care only. Even when medical cures were readily available, she allowed God to decide whether those in her care would recover or die. Any claims that Mother Teresa cured disease from beyond the grave would be out of character. A:She cured the disease of loneliness, of being unwanted, of being unloved, of being abandoned. She made people feel loved, wanted, cared for, she gave them dignity. Modern secular people may not see these as diseases, but the diseases of the soul are so much more painful and more lasting, these are the diseases that she addressed and cured.

Answer 2

A:

In 2002, as part of the beatification process, the Vatican recognised as a miracle the healing of a tumour in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, after the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumour.

Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who told The New York Times he had treated Besra, said that the cyst was not cancer at all but a cyst caused by tuberculosis. He said, "It was not a miracle.... She took medicines for nine months to one year." According to Besra's husband, "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle. He obviously did not believe that the cyst went down overnight, as some claim.

Catholic Answer:

Ms. Besra had undergone treatment for nearly a year with little result. The morning after the picture of Mother Teresa was placed on her abdomen, the tumor disappeared completely. The Church defines a miracle as an event that has no rational explanation, it happens almost instantaneously and it is a complete healing. Such miracles are thoroughly investigated by a team of specialists before they are accepted by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the Pope.