Pope Francis begins a two-day pilgrimage on Friday to the holy site of Fatima in central Portugal to mark the centenary of the first visions of the Virgin Mary. The site where the Madonna is said to ...

Pilgrims walk towards the Fatima Basilica in Fatima, Portugal, Thursday May, 11, 2017. Pope Francis is visiting the Fatima shrine on May 12 and 13 to canonize two Portuguese shepherd children whose ...

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church ...

Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints last week, honoring young siblings whose reported visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago turned the Portuguese ...

Historian Harrigan (The Leopard Is Loose) provides a colorful account of the 1917 appearance of the biblical Mary to three young shepherds in the village of Fátima, Portugal. The visions—in which a ...

For doubters, the Fatima story is a trumped-up tale built around hallucinations. For believers, Fatima's message of peace, prayer and conversion from sin is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago, ...