Comment: Mother Teresa and the media

As the great river of articles and commentary now gushing forth on Mother Teresa in advance of her canonization Sunday shows, perhaps no one in the modern age - with the exception of recent popes - has managed to communicate so much holiness through the window of the television and film screen - Austen Ivereigh writes in Crux.

She fast became a legend in her own times - unusual in combining sanctity and celebrity while still alive - in large part because hers was a great media story.

The Associated Press reporter who first made her work known to a western audience knew he had a story after being told by a Calcutta newspaper editor about a "funny little nun who goes around collecting dying people." Joe McGowan's March 1966 report on Mother Teresa

To read on see: https://cruxnow.com/canonization-of-mother-teresa/2016/09/02/mother-teresa-media-camera-saw/