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MISSIONARIES CHARITY NEW YORK

Sister Marie Frank, a member of the Missionaries of Charity, prepares lunch in a soup kitchen run by her order in an apartment building in the South Bronx section of New York Aug. 24. The community also manages a homeless shelter for men in the same building. Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, will be canonized at the Vatican Sept. 4. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

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