MacKillop College, Mornington MacKillop College, Mornington MacKillop Catholic College is a co-educational Catholic secondary school for Years 7 to 10 in the Hobart suburb of Mornington. The school is named in honour of the Australian educationalist Mary MacKillop, an Australian nun who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church. The school also has an association with the Christian Brothers founded by Edmund Rice. MacKillop and Rice are key sources of inspiration for the school community. MacKillop Catholic College is the only Catholic secondary college servicing Hobart's eastern shore. The college is a member of the Sports Association of Tasmanian Independent Schools.
Mary MacKillop had a somewhat positive outlook toward the Josephites, he removed MacKillop as superior general and replaced her with Sister Bernard Walsh. Pope Leo XIII gave official approval to the Josephites as a congregation in 1885, with its headquarters in Sydney. On 31 May 1886, Mary MacKillop's mother, Flora MacKillop was travelling from Melbourne to Sydney in the SS Ly-ee-Moon, to visit Mary and another daughter who was also a nun. The ship struck a reef near the Green Cape Lighthouse. Flora, along with 70 others, died. Pope Leo XIII gave the final approval to the Sisters of Saint Joseph of