Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will unveil guidelines for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena on Friday, but it is not the first time that the Vatican’s doctrine office ...

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

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 ...

The Pontifical International Marian Academy has created a commission to study and monitor cases of alleged Marian apparitions and other mystical phenomena. The new "observatory" or monitoring body was ...

(RNS) — Every Sunday, in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, a group of followers of Veronica Lueken, a Catholic housewife who said she saw visions of Mary starting in 1968, gather around a ...

The last time the Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a general document on apparitions was in 1978, during the final months of the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. Newly appointed cardinal Prefect of the ...

The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For the Vatican, reports of supernatural ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported in 1858. LandFoto/iStock / Getty Images Plus The Vatican recently ...

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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.