Yesterday, in front of a crowd of about 50,000 Catholics from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI canonised Mary MacKillop - the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart - and ...

At his first general audience in three weeks, Pope Francis praised the evangelization efforts of St. Mary MacKillop, a religious sister who devoted her life to providing Catholic education to the ...

Australians in Rome have spent the night celebrating Australia's first Catholic saint - St Mary MacKillop of the Cross. In St Peter's Square, before an audience of around 50,000, Pope Benedict XVI ...

Cheers, tears and hopes for the future combined in equal measure as Australians young and old welcomed Mary MacKillop into the ... her as Saint Mary of the Cross in a solemn ceremony at the ...

Neither knew the other. And Donald MacKillop was one of the two younger brothers of the soon-to-be St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Donald and Mary were very close, and several of their ...