NEWS BRIEFS: Australia closer to getting saint
Posted: December 24, 2009 at 3:51 a.m.
SYDNEY — Australian Catholics celebrated Sunday a papal decision that will likely give the country its first saint — the feisty Mary MacKillop, who founded a network of schools for poor children and was briefly excommunicated before being set on the path to canonization.
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Religion, Pages 27 on 12/24/2009
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