If it weren’t for Mel Gibson, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich might have remained an obscure figure, unknown to everyone but select Catholic scholars and a cult of the devoted. But Gibson’s inclusion ...

THE VATICAN: The 19th-century German nun whose visions of Jesus's death inspired Mel Gibson's film The Passion of The Christ… THE VATICAN: The 19th-century German nun whose visions of Jesus's death ...

The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson’s hit movie The Passion of the Christ was beatified Sunday by Pope John Paul II. Beatification is the last ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of Blessed Anne-Catherine Emmerich’s death and the 20th anniversary of her beatification by Pope John Paul II, the Archdiocese of Izmir in Turkey held a symposium Oct. 11 ...