THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE is protesting Vatican plans to beatify Anne Catherine Emmerich:

ADL against sainting nun that inspired 'Passion' (Jerusalem Post)
By ABIGAIL RADOSZKOWICZ

The Anti-Defamation League is protesting Vatican plans to beatify the German mystic nun Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), whose visions of Jesus's last hours served as the source for beyond-the-Gospel details in the controversial hit film, The Passion of the Christ.

Director Mel Gibson has cited Emmerich as his inspiration, in particular for those scenes termed most "troubling" by the ADL. Beatification is the penultimate step before a deceased figure is proclaimed a saint.

"The disturbing conclusion that could be drawn from this beatification is that her anti-Semitic views, even if only attributed to her, are being discounted," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director.

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