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Australian nun 'to be made patron saint of abuse victims'


"An Australian nun who will be canonised by the Pope next month should be made the patron saint of clerical sex abuse victims, Catholics have suggested.

Mary MacKillop, who was born to Scottish parents, worked in often harsh conditions in the Outback and will become Australia's first saint during a special Mass at the Vatican on Oct 17.

An Australian documentary due to be aired a week before her canonisation claims that she was persecuted by the Catholic Church for denouncing a priest, Father Patrick Keating, who was abusing children.

In 1871 MacKillop, then 29, was excommunicated by her bishop in South Australia for five months but it has never been clear exactly why.

The priest was disciplined but then simply moved back to his native Ireland, where he took up a job in a new parish.

The claims that she was shunned by the Church for speaking out against paedophile priests have led to calls from some Catholics for her to be made the unofficial patron saint of victims of clerical sex abuse around the world."