I take it you haven't read Memnoch the Devil. That's where that tasty little scene happens. The whole damn book is just an orgy of breast-beating Catholic ranting, filtered through Lestat, of all people. If there was one character that I would never have believed would get into the devout Catholicism thing, it would be Lestat. That's what first clued me in to him being the biggest Mary Sue of all time. And Anne has the whole whip-me-Jesus infection just as bad as Mel does. They could have a great time flagellating each other, I'm sure.