Anne Catherine Emmerich Catherine. In 1973 the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints allowed the case for her beatification to be re-opened, provided it only focused on the issue of her life, without any reference to the possibly doctored material produced by Clemens Brentano. In July 2003 the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints promulgated a decree of a miracle attributed to her, and that paved the way for her beatification. On 3 October 2004 Anne Catherine Emmerich was beatified by Pope John Paul II. However, the books produced by Brentano were set aside, and her cause adjudicated solely on the
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. "Collected Stories", in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in "Flowering Judas"; "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"; and "The Leaning Tower". In the preface "Go Little Book ...", Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do