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Article: A `Model' for Women Is Beatified by Pope; 19th-Century Australian Nun Helped Poor
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 20, 1995
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Hailing her "radiant holiness," Pope John Paul II beatified an
activist 19th-century nun today and reiterated his position that
there cannot be female priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
The pope flies Friday to Sri Lanka, where he will celebrate
another beatification before returning to Rome.
Mother Mary MacKillop, a pioneer teacher, minister to the poor and
founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, was the
first Australian to be declared blessed - a final step toward
possible sainthood. The ceremony was attended by a woman who Church
doctors say was miraculously cured of leukemia 30 years ago through
the nun's intercession.
Commending "the radiant holiness of your ...