Mary MacKillop | Excommunicated for Reporting Child Abuse, Australia's First Saint
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Mary MacKillop | Excommunicated for Reporting Child Abuse, Australia's First Saint
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Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842 to Scottish immigrant parents. She founded Australia's first religious order — the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart — and dedicated her life to educating poor children across the outback.
When a priest in her network was credibly accused of sexual abuse, she reported it. He was sent back to Ireland. A colleague, furious at his removal, manipulated the Bishop of Adelaide — and on 22 September 1871, Mary was excommunicated.
During those months as an outcast, she was sheltered by a Jewish family and Jesuit priests. Nine days before the bishop died, he rescinded the excommunication and admitted he had been deceived.
She kept building schools.
In 2010, Mary MacKillop became Australia's first and only canonised saint.
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