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 ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

One of the apparitions occurred in 1859 at Champion, Wisconsin. It is the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States. "That is something new," Siegel said of the medallion paintings.

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 ...

A second difference is that Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the only Marian apparitions where Mary is pregnant. As we understand, Our Blessed Mother appeared to St. Juan Diego in order to ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith granted a nihil obstat of Marian devotion surrounding the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary on Mount Zvir in Slovakia. Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

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 ...