In the years after his wife's death, Mr Mills' yearning to walk the Camino grew — but he could not leave his grieving children or afford a plane ticket to Spain. Then in 2010, Mary MacKillop ...

Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842. Her parents, Flora and Alexander MacKillop, were Catholic immigrants from Scotland. Mary, the eldest of eight children, was raised in the working ...

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.

VATICAN CITY-- Mother Mary MacKillop won’t be canonized until Oct. 17, but some Catholics already have an unofficial title for the 19th-century Australian nun: Patron Saint of Whistleblowers.

Among the crowd were 8,000 Australians there to honor one of those canonized, a nineteenth-century woman, Mary Mackillop, who devoted her life to education children in Australia’s vast outback.

I have written a longer story about Mary MacKillop , but the question raised in the first paragraph is worth opening up for comment. "Feisty, anti-authoritarian, a lover of the bush, a friend of ...

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict presided over a ceremony on Sunday making six new saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including Mary MacKillop, Australia's first saint. Here are some key facts about ...