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 ...

On June 29, 2001, nearly 20 years after Alphonsine had first reported her apparition, Rwanda’s Bishop Augustin Misago and the Vatican ... Certain images and stories of the Virgin Mary are ...

As always, an A4 image of Mary is taped near Francis' window, in the front row of the plane. For this 13+ hour flight, the Argentine pope chose an image of the crowned Virgin and Child ...

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Mary and Judaism in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue – Father Bertrand Buby S.M. Since the close of Vatican II the dialogue between Catholics ... I think these various images of Mary can help each of us ...

In the Guadalupe event, God chose to give the miraculous image of Mary ... is to be an apostle. The Vatican II Decree on the Laity advances, as the perfect example of the spiritual and apostolic life, ...

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 an otherwise ...

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering its approval for devotion in ...

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 an otherwise ...

Sacramentals aid the ignorant in learning the truths of faith as children learn from pictures before they are ... then the Hail Mary on each of the three small beads, and then Glory be to the ...

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

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of ...