Vatican revamps norms to evaluate visions of Mary as it adapts to internet age and combats hoaxers Nowadays, word about apparitions or weeping Madonnas travels quickly and can actually harm the ...

The Vatican gave its blessing to Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in Bosnia but refused to say whether their visions were real.

Pope Francis to sit down with 60 Minutes 01:02. Vatican City – The Vatican's doctrinal office has released new norms regarding alleged supernatural phenomena such as apparitions of Mary, weeping ...

But some of those that the Vatican has endorsed, like the 19th-century apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France, and those in early-20th-century Fátima, Portugal, have become hugely ...

David Murgia, an author and journalist who has written two books about Medjugorje, said that the new document would disappoint those who wanted clarity from the Vatican about the alleged apparitions.

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 ...