A priest accuses Pope Leo XIV of ignoring past child abuse allegations, raising concerns about his leadership and handling of ...

Pilgrims from all over the world gather in front of Saint James Church in Medjugorje. Since 1981, when six children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary, this village of 2,300 residents in ...

In 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 ...

In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance of praying the rosary.

In 2024, the Vatican approved the spiritual experience of Medjugorje without confirming its supernatural character. 1. A good and charitable Church Ruini notes in his first point that “love made ...

As a result, there were frequent misunderstandings between the Holy See and the Catholic Church in Croatia, which preferred to focus on the preservation of Croatian national and religious identity.

Cardia, who also claimed that the statue was sending her messages, was declared a fraud by the Roman Catholic Church last year ... and she bought the controversial statue in Medjugorje in 2016. She ...

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, the pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon there as a call to make this ...

“Majella had applied for an annulment, and that came through; so we got married in the church. It was lovely.” More than 200 fans came to wish them well, one saying it was the closest Ireland could ...

Church authorities have argued about the Medjugorje apparitions since they began. They sent psychiatrists and physicians to examine the seers, tested the children’s grasp of the catechism and ...

Since the 1981 apparitions, some of the original seers report experiencing further appearances, and the note considers the alleged messages conveyed in the light of the Church’s teaching. The ...