Cardinal Angelo Amato read a brief biography of Mother Teresa's work and then asked the Pope to canonize her in the name of the Church. Mother Teresa's life was given to service and she was committed to defending life, especially the "unborn and those abandoned and discarded". She was "a generous dispenser of divine mercy". "She was committed to defending life, ceaselessly proclaiming that the unborn are the weakest, the smallest, the most vulnerable," the Pope said.