In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town.

HELSINKI — Around 300 Catholic and Orthodox faithful gathered in the capital of the predominantly Lutheran country of Finland ...

More than 40 million pilgrims from around the world have flocked to the small village named Medjugorje since 1981.

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office will hold a press conference Thursday about the “spiritual experience” at the ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them ... well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin Mary in ...

Beth Racine had just come out of church after confession in Medjugorje and was leaning against a wall when something caught ...

His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Paul Benedikt of Austria, scion of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen, says he's ...

Pope Francis stopped at the Basilica of St Mary Major upon his return to Rome on Friday, to thank the Blessed Virgin Mary for ...

Calvin Coolidge became the nation’s 30th president after a landslide victory, the Statue of Liberty was designated as a ...

Preface of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2. 10. Preface of the Immaculate Conception ... Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1974. The Roman Missal - The Sacramentary. Collegeville:The ...

Roman Catholic youths guard a life-size figure in Kalwaria Pacławska, Poland. The Feast of the Assumption is a weeklong festival here. Praying for the Virgin Mary’s intercession and being ...