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 ...

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 ...

'The World of Marian Apparitions' is a family-friendly guide to learning more about the Virgin Mary's appearances on earth. Today is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, which marks one of the most ...

Why do Marian apparitions differ in appearance? Jimmy Akin explores the question of how the Blessed Virgin Mary can appear differently in various apparitions around the world. Learn the Church’s ...

There is something strange about the places where people say the Virgin Mary has appeared: a hillside in Portugal, a grotto in France, a hill outside Mexico City, a small village in western Ireland.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Asia's great Marian shrines already practice what the Vatican's doctrinal note on Marian titles affirmed a year ago. The ...

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 ...

ROME – Since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of alleged Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena two months ago, the Vatican has put out rulings on several cases, ...