What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Life and Being a Lawyer

Jim Towey

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9-17-2025

Abstract

On September 17, Catholic Law welcomed Jim Towey, Founder and CEO of Aging with Dignity, for an insightful Faith-in-Action discussion. The Faith-in-Action lecture series is an initiative of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person. It is designed to offer students living examples of lawyers who witness to their faith through their vocation to law.

In his lecture, "What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Life and Being a Lawyer," Towey shared lessons from his time as a trusted legal advisor to St. Teresa of Calcutta.

Jim Towey was legal counsel and close advisor to Mother Teresa of Calcutta for 12 years and did the first reading at her Mass of Canonization in St. Peter’s Square. He has been pro bono legal counsel to the Missionaries of Charity for 40 years. He previously headed the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under George W. Bush for four years and served on his senior staff.

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