Sydney, July 8 (DPA) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should not be pressuring Pope
Benedict XVI to make Australian nun Mary MacKillop a saint, a prominent Jesuit priest said
Wednesday.
Frank Brennan joined other leading Catholics in criticising Rudd for arranging a meeting
Wednesday with the pope at which Rudd said he would encourage the pontiff to have MacKillop
canonised.
'I think it would not be appropriate for him to attempt to lobby,' Father Brennan told the national
broadcaster ABC.
Rudd has been accused of courting the Catholic vote by trying to make MacKillop Australia's
first saint before the next general election.
source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090708/902/twl-australian-premier-rapped-for-lobbyi.html
Benedict XVI to make Australian nun Mary MacKillop a saint, a prominent Jesuit priest said
Wednesday.
Frank Brennan joined other leading Catholics in criticising Rudd for arranging a meeting
Wednesday with the pope at which Rudd said he would encourage the pontiff to have MacKillop
canonised.
'I think it would not be appropriate for him to attempt to lobby,' Father Brennan told the national
broadcaster ABC.
Rudd has been accused of courting the Catholic vote by trying to make MacKillop Australia's
first saint before the next general election.
source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090708/902/twl-australian-premier-rapped-for-lobbyi.html
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