Some of the manifestations are particularly unusual, such as a recent Italian case the Vatican rejected as “non-supernatural” earlier this year involving a Virgin Mary crying tears of blood ...

The Vatican on Thursday issued a statement acknowledging that spiritual "fruits" had come from the site of controversial purported apparitions of the Virgin Mary — while also stopping short of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared ROME -- Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary ... Vatican was no longer in the business of declaring alleged visions ...