VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.

Across centuries, people have reported encounters with the Virgin Mary, often delivering urgent messages. Some of these apparitions sparked pilgrimages, miracles, and global devotion. Others were ...

The Marian shrine in Santa Domenica was built around a boulder, the site of Mary’s alleged appearances to 18-year-old Cosimo Fragomeni from May 11–14, 1968. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has made public its 1974 decision denying the authenticity of Marian apparitions alleged to have occurred in Amsterdam between 1945 and 1959. A statement released by ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in ...

In 1981, six children and teenagers reported seeing visions of the Madonna on a hill in the village of Medjugorje, located in the wine-making region of southern Bosnia. Some of those original “seers” ...

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