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 ...

COMMENTARY: The new norms make no mention of Medjugorje, but it would be fair speculation to think that they were designed to make reaching a conclusion about Medjugorje easier. Pilgrims visit 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 ...

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has published new “norms,” approved by Pope Francis, regarding how the Catholic Church and local bishops are to deal with “alleged supernatural ...

Marian apparitions in Ireland share some interesting things in common. In 2019 there was a surprise when a story broke about an antique shop in Tralee, County Kerry. A steady stream of Catholic ...

The Pontifical International Marian Academy has created a commission to study and monitor cases of alleged Marian apparitions and other mystical phenomena. The new "observatory" or monitoring body was ...

The Vatican is offering insight on apparitions and other supernatural phenomena on Friday in a press conference set to be streamed live on YouTube. The press conference has been scheduled for Friday ...

Gisella Cardia kneels and looks skyward Aug. 3, 2020, in the moment devotees claim Mary appeared to her and revealed a message. The alleged apparitions take place in Trevignano Romano, Italy. (Credit: ...

Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda. (Credit: Diocese of Mamfe.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – In Cameroon, Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda has cautioned Christians about the alleged ...

Devotions at a Marian shrine in Spain that communicate Mary's "close and affectionate presence" can and should continue, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said. Cardinal Víctor Manuel ...