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Mother Mary MacKillop – news about the soon-to-be-beatified Catholic sister
Mother Mary MacKillop, the Australian sister who will be beatified on October 17, was excommunicated by her local bishop. This is common knowledge. But the reason for that excommunication has just been revealed: she was pursuing a case against a sexually abusive priest.
Read Mary MacKillop: Patron Saint of Sexual Abuse Victims? by Father James Martin, SJ, on the America Magazine blog, “In All Things.”
More on Mother Mary MacKillop. Also, mark your calendar — Father Martin will be joining us here on A Nun’s Life Ministry for our In Good Faith live broadcast on December 2 at 8 pm CST (your time zone).
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Great timing here!
The article made me physically sick. To be excommunicated for trying to get justice for molestation by a priest… what do I say? There is a South Park episode–and South Park is horribly irreverent and worse, but it makes good points–where a priest discovers boys are being molested by priests and he tries to stop it. The big joke of the show is that, all the way to the Vatican, the priests he tells are horrified to hear that boys are reporting abuse by priests. They are horrified the boys are *telling*, though, not at the abuse.
I realize most priests are good men. I know many wonderful priests. But it seems there have always been those more loyal to the idea that priests should be revered (and never punished for things like abuse) than to the teachings of Jesus.
Some of the comments on the article were still in defense of the Church and state that no one should challenge her, but God bless Mother Mary MacKillop for knowing the difference between a criminal priest and the Church. Would that everyone was so enlightened.
I wonder if in some small way the canonization of Mary MacKillop can begin to bring about a healing in our church, a healing that includes our recognition of and atonement for not protecting our children as well as we could have.
Jules, I think it really could. We certainly could use it.
Another reason to love the women of the church.