Pope beatifies nun who inspired Mel Gibson
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The Pope, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, yesterday ploughed into fresh controversy by announcing two startling beatifications.
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Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and an ...
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It seemed like an invasion of Biblical  proportions in the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting  for Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ."
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"The Nativity Story", a Hollywood movie of the story of Mary and Joseph before the birth of Jesus, had its world premiere at the Vatican on Sunday and won strong praise from the man known as the "deputy pope".
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With little promotion, the Passion of the Christ DVD sold 4.1 million copies in its first day, its distributors said. That adds to its impressive box office numbers, and makes Mel Gibson an even richer man.
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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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Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, a wartime German cleric who openly criticised the Nazis and their euthanasia killings, is set to be put on the path to Roman Catholic sainthood by Pope John Paul next year.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II, breathing heavily and gasping at times, celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday for several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, at a shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures.    At one point he said "help me" in Polish while struggling through his homily in French...
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From Freaks  and Geeks to  The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he's the patron saint of misfits. Inside the mind of writer-director  Judd Apatow.
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VATICAN CITY : Pope John Paul II on Sunday beatified the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles I, and a German mystic whose visions inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s controversial film &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot;.
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ELLUNO, Italy, OCT. 20, 2004 .- For Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul I is "an example for all" and he prays for his beatification.
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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 Nativity Story," a Hollywood  movie of the story of Mary and Joseph before the birth of  Jesus, had its world premiere at the Vatican on Sunday and won  strong praise from the man known as the "deputy pope."
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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 may be a religious man, but he apparently doesn't like   to pray with strangers.
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Never one to shrink from  criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial  figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last  emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on  Christ's passion.
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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.