Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta is to be canonised this Sunday. To commemorate this event, Gracewing is advertising several books about her. One that includes lavish colour photos is Prophetess of our Time by Linda Schaefer (£14.99). The author, a freelance photojournalist, describes a trip to Rome in 2003 for Mother Teresa’s beatification, as well as a later visit in 2012.

What is particularly interesting about her book are the long, taped conversations she had with two priest-friends of Mother Teresa: Mgr John Esseff SJ, who got to know the Missionaries of Charity when he was sent to Lebanon in 1984, and Fr Benedict Groeschel, who first met Mother Teresa in Manhattan in 1968 and who remained friends with her for the next three decades.