The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Besra has claimed that Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity is holding them. When I pick up a person from the street hungry I give him a plate of rice a piece of bread I have satisfied. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers and the Lay Missionaries of Charity.

In late 2003 Mother Teresa was beatified the third step toward possible sainthood giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity poverty and obedience and the fourth vow to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before Mother Teresa can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church.