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The State - News from May 29, 1988

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A donated house near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park will become home to 20 AIDS patients who will be cared for by members of the Missionaries of Charity religious order headed by Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun said. During a ceremony in San Francisco in which 11 women joined her order, Mother Teresa also announced that the nuns will will begin feeding the poor from an abandoned city fire house. “Right here in this beautiful city, there are so many people who are unwanted and unloved,” Mother Teresa told the novitiates. “Do you know they are here? Try to treat each other with love and compassion and tenderness. Try to be that love.”

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