The events reportedly began after the couple brought back an image of Our Lady of Peace from Medjugorje in 2014. The Vatican’s intervention is in regards to the claims by self-styled visionary Gisella ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, in order to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.

After an investigation by a group of experts, “fervent” prayer, and “attentive discernment,” an Italian bishop has decreed that the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Trevignano Romano, a town ...

The Vatican is set to rule on reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian shrine The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism ...

(The Conversation) — The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how apparitions ...

Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Culture, University of Michigan The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, ...