Pope beatifies five, including German nun who inspired Gibson's 'Passion
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Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson s film, The Passion of the Christ.
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A 19th Century nun whose visions inspired a Hollywood film is one of two Catholics to be beatified by the pope.
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The Passion of the Christ has earned another laurel for its producer, as Mel Gibson has been selected for the Producer of the Year award at this year's Hollywood Film Festival.
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The Pope has praised an Italian nun who forgave her killers as she lay dying after an attack in Somalia.
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Some 498 Catholics executed in the Spanish Civil War are honoured in the Vatican's largest-ever beatification.
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The 18th-Century German nun whose violent, mystical visions of Jews were the source of several controversial scenes in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is about to move a step closer to sainthood, ...
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Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during apparitions in 1917, on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday.
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and  speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to  sainthood on Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic  nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on Christ's passion.
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REGENSBURG, Germany  - Pope Benedict dedicated a   church organ named after himself on Wednesday and took the   image of the multi-piped instrument as a symbol for the way   Roman Catholicism should seek harmony in its diversity.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; which is being released on DVD on Tuesday, has caused many valid reactions: religious inspiration, charges of anti-Semitism, nausea at the violence
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Even as he was dogged by claims of sexual abuse, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ religious order remained a favorite of Pope John Paul II. On Friday, Pope Benedict XVI showed a bold willingness to correct his beloved predecessor by disciplining the Mexican priest.
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Pope John Paul II put the last Austro-Hungarian emperor on the road to sainthood on Sunday in a solemn beatification ceremony in St.
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road to sainthood, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion. At the same ceremony in St Peter&#39;s Square on Sunday, he beatified Austria&#39;s last emperor, Karl I. Some of.
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The Vatican cleared the way Monday for the beatification of Mother Marianne Cope, a nun who helped found what is now St.
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The Vatican held the biggest mass  beatification in history on Sunday, putting nearly 500  Catholics killed during the Spanish civil war on the path to  possible sainthood.
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Pope Benedict XVI approved recognition of martyrdom for an Austrian who was beheaded by the Nazis for refusing to serve in Hitler's army, a step toward possible sainthood.