After Mary became pregnant, her betrothed ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary.

Every week my sons stand in the pew at Mass. Like stairsteps, all five in a row by age and height. Or like a motley crew, ...

God is odd about sex. The Bible and Christian writings are odder yet. If all this weirdness affected only believers, it would be important enough. With more than 2bn adherents, Christianity is the ...

The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (the CCC) is over 900 pages long — and it is only part of what makes ...

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in ...

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian landmark received mixed messages from the Vatican on Thursday after the Church refused to say whether their ...

The Vatican issued a long-awaited note on the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It did not say the apparitions were authentic but acknowledged spiritual fruit.

Pilgrims say their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It listed no example of any negative experiences associated with Medjugorje, or reference to ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...