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 ...

Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions. In a decree signed on June 22, the Pope recognized Lucia’s heroic virtue ...

Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, died in 2005. But before her death, she predicted that the final battle between Christ and Satan ...

When people think of Our Lady of Lourdes and her shrine in France, they immediately recall the miraculous waters that have been a channel of healing for 187 years. Fatima, on the other hand, is most ...

Pope Francis will hold an ordinary public consistory on April 20, where the cardinals of the Church are expected to pave the way for the canonization of the Fatima visionaries. There are five causes ...

On March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis will lead an Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In a letter to Catholic bishops, Pope Francis wrote ...

Pope Francis greets children with a variety of illnesses and physical challenges after reciting the rosary at the Chapel of Apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal, Aug. 5, ...

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 ...

NEWMARKET — The annual celebration of the apparitions at Fatima, “Miracle of the Sun” will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at St. Mary Church, 182 Main St. The Rev. Marc R.

For decades, a popular expression in Portugal has referred to the country's "three F's." Futebol. Fado. Fátima. Millions of pilgrims travel to Fátima every year, where it is said that the Virgin Mary ...

Oct. 13, 1917 — the Great War is terrorizing Europe. The Triple Entente and the Central Powers, after a year of brutal warfare, are now locked in a fatal stalemate on the Western Front. Yet on this ...

In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance of praying the rosary. On May 13, 1917, in the village of Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed ...