A new pilgrimage route has been launched by Chichester Cathedral to mark its 950th anniversary. Created in partnership with ...

About 300 Catholics from the Los Angeles area joined Archbishop José Gomez Saturday for a special Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City during the sixth annual Archdiocesan ...

I n June 1981, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary turned a small town in Yugoslavia into a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage. The alleged visions also sparked a confrontation ...

Of the roughly 500 apparitions reported between 1900 and 2000, the Catholic Church declared only 10 to be genuinely supernatural, based on the church’s exacting requirements for authenticity.

Catholic priests conduct a Mass for pilgrims at St. Jacob’s Church, in Medjugorje, on Sept. 19, 2024. Elvis Barukcic/AFP via Getty Images ...

For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have traveled to visit ...

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.

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.

Medjugorje was hotly debated in the Catholic Church during the 1980s and 1990s, and Catholics remain divided over it, with some questioning or rejecting the authenticity of the purported messages.

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.

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 Bosnia-Herzegovina, in a document ...