Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee Audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, included nuns of the Missionary of Charity, the religious family founded by Mother Teresa in St. Peter's Square. The canonization of Mother Teresa will be held Sunday in a ceremony to recognize the sainthood of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died aged 87 in India in 1997.
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A contraption sucked milk from my breasts while my newborn slept next to my hospital bed and the Pope canonizedMother Teresa on TV.
He must have bussed in people without housing from Milan, Bologna, Florence and Naples while my nipples filled with colostrum thick as mozzarella. In St. Peter's Square, he blessed the chefs who cooked pizzas over ovens set up in the streets.
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