Hurrah for Pope Benedict’s canonization on Oct. 17 of an excommunicated 19th century nun, Mother Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint. A woman of courage and integrity, she stood up for victims ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia is celebrating the 10th anniversary this year of the canonization of the country’s first and only saint, St. Mary MacKillop. The pioneering religious sister founded the ...

Born in 1842 in Melbourne, Australia, Mary Helen learnt to know and love God from a mother and father, Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald, whose ancestors had held fast to the Catholic faith in ...

Efforts to brand the newly canonized St. Mary MacKillop as the "Patron Saint of Whistleblowers in the Church,” are inaccurate and wrong, according to the nun responsible for advancing her sainthood ...

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

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.” ...

The Pope noted that MacKillop did not have an easy path to fulfilling her mission of sharing the Good News with those in need, but she persevered. Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's ...

An app about Saint Mary MacKillop has been given an 'i-Blessing' by Father Phillip Marshall from the Catholic Church.(ABC News: Isabel Dayman) abc.net.au/news/mary ...

NORTH Sydney’s own Saint Mary MacKillop will be honoured by an American university as part of a sweeping move to rename campus buildings which had borne the names of priests who covered up the sexual ...

Father Paul Gardiner, who was instrumental in the push to see Mary MacKillop canonised as Australia's first saint, has died in Penola aged 93. He was devoted to the cause for more than two decades, ...