The Catholic Church has officially opened the cause for sainthood of Belgian immigrant who had visions of the Blessed Mother.

An institution has been formed in Rome to study alleged Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church. The International Observatory on Marian Apparitions and Mystical ...

Across centuries, people have reported encounters with the Virgin Mary, often delivering urgent messages. Some of these ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported in 1858. LandFoto/iStock / Getty Images Plus The Vatican recently ...

The Vatican’s doctrine office will publish a new document next week on discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural events. The Holy See Press Office announced on Tuesday that Cardinal Víctor ...

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 story of Sister Teresita Castillo and the supposed Marian apparitions of Lipa City, Philippines reads something like a mystery novel. A negative judgement given in a document signed by local ...

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.