The power of positive thinking

The campaign for sainthood for Mother Mary MacKillop began in 1927. In the late 1800s, the Australian nun was a diligent campaigner for educating the poor and the cofounder of a new religious order, but the prayers of two cancer survivors after her death are what ensured Mary’s canonisation later this year. In 2009, Mother Mary was credited with her second miracle after a woman in New South Wales was pronounced clear of inoperable lung cancer and a secondary brain tumour. The woman had no standard treatment but wore a relic of Mary’s clothing and prayed to her daily. The first miracle attributed to Mother Mary was the similar healing of a woman with leukaemia. Mehr