Claims that Blessed Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for speaking out about an abusive priest are false, according to the postulator of her Cause.
Recent media reports have said that Mary MacKillop had been excommunicated for speaking out against clerical child sex abuse in Australia, citing a documentary made by Australian television.
Fr Paul Gardiner, the world's leading authority on MacKillop and a key source for the documentary, said his words had been twisted by the media to suit their “ill will”. Both he and the programme’s executive producer have denied ever making such an inference.
