In an interview with the Italian Catholic news agency SIR, Cavina described his new responsibility as both an unexpected ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina – Copyright AFP ELVIS BARUKCIC The Vatican said Thursday it recognised the shrine of Medjugorje in ...

The Vatican has given formal approval for pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the site in Bosnia-Herzegovina that has drawn thousands of faithful since reports of Marian apparitions there beginning in 1981.

(ZENIT News / Rome, 09.19.2024).- The Vatican has taken a significant step toward addressing the complex and longstanding debate surrounding the spiritual events at Medjugorje. With the release of the ...

Statue of the Virgin Mary in the town of Medjugorje. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ROME – While offering an overall positive judgment on the Marian apparitions and devotions associated with the Medjugorje ...

Beth Racine had just come out of church after confession in Medjugorje and was leaning against a wall when something caught her eye. A disc covered the sun. She saw swirling colors to the sides — red ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in ...

ROME – On Friday Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández presented a new set of norms for evaluating the authenticity of Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, saying a ruling on the ...

With some prudence, Catholics can benefit spiritually from the messages and spiritual practices associated with the alleged apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, said the Vatican ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 on Thursday ...

In a highly anticipated report on the alleged decadeslong apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday endorsed prudent devotion to Mary at the ...