Pope Benedict Names Australia’s First Saint : NPR

Feb 19

Posted by: Meta4Life in: Current Events, Religion

Congratulations to the nation seem a bit out of place, but it does seem that Mary MackKillop is a wonderful choice for Australia’s first Catholic saint.

Pope Benedict Names Australia’s First Saint : NPR.

I especially liked this passage:

“[...]she was a strong-willed advocate who sometimes got into trouble for challenging orthodox thinking within the male-dominated church. In 1869 she was excommunicated for inciting her followers to disobedience, though the bishop who punished her recanted three years later and she was exonerated by a church commission.”

We need more religious figures like that, willing to stand up to any church’s orthodoxy when it is clearly narrow, bigoted, and/or misguided.