Pope Francis joked during a visit to Albania that Mother Teresa would have struck fear into him if she had been his mother superior, the Vatican spokesman said on Monday. “She spoke her mind,” Francis told the Albanian priest acting as his interpreter during the visit on Sunday, according to Papal spokesman Federico Lombardi. The Pope met the late nun, an ethnic Albanian from Macedonia, in Rome in 1994 when he was mere Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Lombardi said the Pope recalled admiring “the strength and the decisive character of her involvement”. “I would have been scared if she had been my Mother Superior,” he told the priest. The Pope also said “mere tolerance” toward migrants and asylum seekers is not enough and he called for a “globalisation of charity” towards those fleeing warzones and poverty. “It is necessary to respond to the globalisation of migration with the globalisation of charity and cooperation, in such a way as to make the conditions of migr-ants more humane,” the Pontiff said in a message to mark the World Day of Migrants and Refugees next January. Source: The Asian Age, Image: flickr.com
