{"id":501206,"date":"2021-05-12T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501206"},"modified":"2021-05-12T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:20:08","slug":"fact-check-is-anthony-fauci-mother-teresas-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-anthony-fauci-mother-teresas-son\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is Anthony Fauci Mother Teresa\u2019s Son?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-anthony-fauci-mother-teresas-son%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-10-scaled-e1620758116780.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COtHxn8tZZM\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COtHxn8tZZM\/?utm_source%3Dig_embed&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1620839354070000&#038;usg=AFQjCNGdzbTbXFNKSwAzDHAAh5-gc3g9PA\">shared on Instagram<\/a> claims White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci is late nun and missionary Mother Teresa\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COtHxn8tZZM\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.0224719101124\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Fauci\u2019s mother is not Albanian-born Mother Teresa, who does not have any documented children. His mother was from New York and passed away in 1965.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, social media users have often <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/06\/fact-check-anthony-fauci-confronted-political-influencer-airport\/\">shared<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/05\/28\/fact-check-anthony-fauci-all-americans-should-microchipped\/\">misinformation<\/a> about Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S. An image on Instagram shows a photo of Anthony Fauci and a photo of Mother Teresa and claims, \u201cIn case you didn\u2019t know, Dr. Fauci is the son of the largest child trafficker on this planet.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa was an Albanian-born nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and was based in India before dying in 1997 in Kolkata, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Mother-Teresa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/05\/world\/europe\/mother-teresa-named-saint-by-pope-francis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canonized<\/a> as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church in 2016 by Pope Francis. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/07\/07\/fact-check-anthony-fauci-married-ghislaine-maxwell-sister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Is Anthony Fauci Married to Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s Sister?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Fauci is not Mother Teresa\u2019s son. Mother Teresa joined the religious order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loreto.org.au\/loreto-sisters-proud-mother-teresa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sisters of Loreto<\/a> in 1928 before founding the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org\/clife\/teresa\/\">Catholic Online<\/a> reported. Women who join religious orders, like Mother Teresa, take life-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplycatholic.com\/nun-vs-sister\/\">vows of chastity<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/global-church\/2017\/03\/q-celibacy-chastity-promises-vows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catholic News Service<\/a>.\u00a0There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=mother+teresa+have+children&#038;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS890US890&#038;ei=cCacYKaFLeS6ggfs34CYBA&#038;oq=mother+teresa+have+children&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwgAELADEEM6BQgAELADOgcIABCwAxAeOgoILhCwAxDIAxBDOg4ILhDHARCvARCwAxDIAzoECAAQDToKCC4QxwEQrwEQDToMCC4QxwEQrwEQDRAKOgYIABANEB5KBQg4EgExUMSFAVjxiAFg0IoBaAFwAHgAgAHUAYgB3AWSAQUyLjMuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrIAQ_AAQE&#038;sclient=gws-wiz&#038;ved=0ahUKEwim_bbM6sTwAhVkneAKHewvAEMQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no indication<\/a> Mother Teresa ever had any children.<\/p>\n<p>If Anthony Fauci was related to Mother Teresa, media outlets certainly would have reported on it, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=anthony+fauci+mother+teresa&#038;bih=821&#038;biw=1440&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=h-GaYJnLMcKp1QH9wZ-ICA&#038;oq=anthony+fauci+mother+teresa&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQ8PcCWIf_AmC1gANoAnAAeACAAZsBiAGIA5IBAzMuMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&#038;sclient=gws-wiz&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjZqsretMLwAhXCVDUKHf3gB4EQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">none have<\/a>. Anthony Fauci\u2019s mother, Eugenia Fauci, was born in New York and her family is from Italy, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1994641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007 introduction<\/a> announcing Fauci as a winner of the Association of American Physicians George M. Kober Medal. Eugenia Fauci died in 1965, Anthony Fauci\u2019s father, Stephen Fauci\u2019s 2008 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage-980DE3DF1E3AF937A25756C0A96E9C8B63.html\">obituary<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Missionaries of Charity was under investigation for child trafficking by Indian authorities in 2018, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/38805\/missionaries-of-charity-sister-arrested-in-baby-selling-investigation\">two women<\/a> were arrested in connection with trafficking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/17\/629681931\/late-mother-teresas-order-investigated-for-child-trafficking-in-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Instagram claims White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci is late nun and missionary Mother Teresa\u2019s son. Verdict: False Anthony Fauci\u2019s mother is not Albanian-born Mother &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277977,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-10-scaled-e1620758116780.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Is Anthony Fauci Mother Teresa\u2019s Son?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-10-scaled-e1620758116780.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Is Anthony Fauci Mother Teresa\u2019s Son?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}