They want Mary MacKillop to be viewed as the patron saint of child sex abuse victims ... become a curiously malleable figure: a longtime symbol of hope for the infirmed, a newfound symbol of ...

With St. Mary MacKillop now in the Litany of Saints the good news is that excommunication could be the new fast track to sainthood! Our brother priests at the Vatican would do well to make her ...

saint-to-be Mary MacKillop, should be named the patron saint of abused children for exposing a paedophile priest. MacKillop, who will become Australia's first saint at a Vatican canonisation on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AUSTRALIA'S highest-ranking Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, has urged the Pope to make Mary MacKillop the country's first saint.

The BBC's Duncan Kennedy says hundreds of Australians have travelled to Rome to witness the Pope canonise Mary MacKillop Pope Benedict XVI has officially recognised Australia's first saint ...

Australia's 5 million Catholics have their first saint after Pope Benedict XVI canonized Mary MacKillop, co-founder more than 140 years ago of an order of nuns known as the "Sisters of the Outback." ...

But at this time, abuse victims and their families need all the help they can get—in heaven as on earth. St. Mary MacKillop, pray for them. And for us.

And Mary Mackillop passed that one easily! The next two steps are a lot more difficult though. Before Mary can be called a saint, she has to be credited with two miracles which are acts which defy ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI today approved sainthood for Mother Mary MacKillop, making the woman known for her work among the needy Australia’s first saint. The pope made the announcement ...

There are dozens of sites around the world celebrating the life of Australia's first and only saint, Mary MacKillop. But none are perhaps more moving, nor telling than a little road in Penola ...

The college was named after Penola, the small town in South Australia where Mary MacKillop started her first school and established her order, the Sisters of St Joseph. Year 11 student Madison ...

The BBC's Duncan Kennedy says hundreds of Australians have travelled to Rome to witness the Pope canonise Mary MacKillop Pope Benedict XVI has officially recognised Australia's first saint ...