The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For the Vatican, reports of supernatural ...

During the 1990s, I visited two sites where apparitions of the Blessed Mother were alleged but eventually faded after predictions failed to materialize, without requiring Church intervention. Call me ...

There are places in the Catholic imagination where the veil between the physical and spiritual feels unusually thin. A hillside in Portugal; a grotto in southern France; a former Aztec shrine outside ...

Have you ever heard of a recent apparition from the Blessed Virgin Mary? What are your immediate thoughts about it? Do you have to wait for Church approval before you believe in the said apparition?

The last time the Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a general document on apparitions was in 1978, during the final months of the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. Newly appointed cardinal Prefect of the ...

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...

(RNS) — Every Sunday, in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, a group of followers of Veronica Lueken, a Catholic housewife who said she saw visions of Mary starting in 1968, gather around a ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will unveil guidelines for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena on Friday, but it is not the first time that the Vatican’s doctrine office ...