During an Aug. 5 visit to one of the Catholic Church's most storied Marian shrines — a place where for over a century spirituality and geopolitics have been elaborately intertwined — Pope Francis ...
Most Catholics are familiar with Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Lourdes, but less so with Our Lady of the Roses or Our Lady of Agoo. And for good reason: The latter two are instances of alleged ...
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 ...
Shrine of Our Lady of the Rock in Calabria. (Credit: Our Lady of the Rock shrine/ Fondazione Madonna dello Scoglio.) Listen ROME – Since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of ...
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 ...
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 ...