Saint Therese of Lisieux:

Doctor of the Universal Church

• Pope John Paul II's homily at the Angelus on World Youth Day, August 24, 1997, announcing that he would name St. Therese a Doctor of the Church
• Pope John Paul's remarks on August 27, 1997, shortly after World Youth Day
  The Pope describes Therese as the "authoritative teacher" of the overwhelming message of God's love
• "Divini Amoris Scientia," Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II proclaiming St. Therese a Doctor of the Church
• "Therese, a doctor for the third millenium," a circular letter to the Carmelite family from its General Superiors, Fr. Camillo Maccise, OCD and Fr. Joseph Chalmers, O. Carm.
• Pope John Paul II's homily at the Doctoral Mass of St. Therese, October 19, 1997
• Press release describing the doctoral Mass
• Pope John Paul II's address to the pilgrims in Rome for the proclamation of St. Therese as a Doctor of the Church, October 20, 1997
• "Therese, doctor of the Church," an interview with Monseigneur Guy Gaucher, OCD, auxiliary bishop of Bayeux and LIsieux
• "St. Therese of Lisieux: Doctor of the Universal Church," by Steven Payne, OCD
• "Therese, a doctor of the Church," by Bishop Patrick Ahern
• Quick facts about Therese as a doctor of the Church
• "Therese of LIsieux, Challenge to Doctrine and Theology," by William M. Thompson, a chapter in "Experiencing Saint Therese Today"
• "The faith of St. Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church"
  An issue of the spiritual newsletter from Clairval Abbey, Flavigny, France
• News story "Pope Names St. Therese of Lisieux Doctor of the Church"
  Catholic World News, October 1997
• "St. Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face"
  An "oblate letter" from Pluscarden Abbey written on the occasion of St. Therese's being named a Doctor of the Church
• "St. Therese of LIsieux, Doctor of the Church" by Michael Novak
  published in "Crisis" Magazine, December 1997