Getty Images Catholic pilgrims gather to pray near the statue of Virgin Mary in the Bosnian village of Medjugorje. AFP via Getty Images The Vatican recognized the shrine of Medjugorje without ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman ...

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 at an otherwise ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them ... declared authentic by the Vatican. And over the years ...