The blessed dictated her visions concerning Mary’s last days in Ephesus, including her death and assumption, described in great detail, in August 1821, before the dogma of the Immaculate Conception ...

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 ...

In 2004, Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ explored the last hours of Christ's life in (literally) excruciating detail, despite the fact that the New Testament says relatively ...

NPR's John Ydstie talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter, about Sunday's beatification ceremony for five prospective Catholic saints. One of the new saints is ...