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.

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil village has become a major pilgrimage site.

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 Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith granted a nihil obstat of Marian devotion surrounding the alleged apparitions of ...

The Vatican has given the go-ahead for Catholics to continue visiting a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Vatican offered its approval for ...

Vatican releases pictures of Pope Francis' tomb, as it opens for public viewing Francis is buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome.

The verdict regarding Austrian Father Gebhard Paul Maria Sigl, cofounder of the Family of Mary, was reached by a three-judge ecclesiastical tribunal Sept. 18 and approved by Pope Francis Oct. 11.

The Vatican has approved the promotion of devotion to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje but did not make any declaration on the alleged supernatural character of the Marian apparitions there.

Mary Magdalene’s faith journey is depicted as a “continued story of constant redemption and of constant growth, where she is ...

VATICAN CITY — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square ...

Vatican Media A private ceremony to lay Pope Francis to rest has finished at Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica, the Vatican has said in a Telegram statement.

Pope Francis asks for 'simple' burial in his will shared by Vatican. Read full testament 'The tomb should be in the ground; simple, without particular ornamentation, and bearing only the ...