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: Mirror of JusticeSadly, this happy story has a too-familiar ring to it ...
Patron saint of troublemakers
August 07, 2009
The headlines read: Pope hopes excommunicated nun might become saint.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Mother Mary MacKillop, the foundress of the Australian-based Sisters of
St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, was, in 1871, officially excommunicated
by her local bishop, on the grounds that 'she had incited the sisters
to disobedience and defiance'.
That same church leader, Bishop Sheil, had earlier invited her to work
in Adelaide, where she and her sisters would eventually set up schools,
a women's shelter and an orphanage, among their many works. But
MacKillop's independent spirit was a threat to Bishop Sheil, who had
her booted out of the Church.
Last month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke with Pope Benedict XVI
about MacKillop's possible canonisation. Just last year, the pope
visited MacKillop's tomb in Sydney during his visit to Australia for
World Youth Day. Prime Minister Rudd said that the visit 'left a deep
impression on the Holy Father'.
In April of this year, in an extraordinary gesture, Bishop's Sheil's
successor, the current archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, made a
public apology to the Sisters for their foundress's excommunication.
Standing before her statue, he said that he was 'profoundly ashamed of
the Bishop's actions in driving the Sisters out onto the streets'. . . .
MacKillop was beatified in 1995. From the sounds of Prime Minister's
Rudd's comments, and the implied message of the pope's visit to her
tomb, she will soon become a saint ? perhaps the patron saint of
troublemakers. [Read the entire piece here.] [HT: Greg Kalscheur, SJ.]
Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on February 20, 2010 (boomark / email).
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