COMMENTARY: The 40th anniversary is a fitting time to dwell on God’s providence throughout the 20th century, which was the most violent, chaotic, and murderous 100-year period in human history. Pope ...

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 ...

On Oct. 13, 2016, Catholics commemorate the 99th anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun”: In a small town in Portugal, called Fátima, the sun left its place in the sky and spiraled toward earth. This ...

“Fatima” is a bit of a high-wire act. A dramatic account of the Marian visitations experienced by three Portuguese peasant children during World War I, it gives both the innocent faithful and the ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is back in the news and not a moment too soon. This time, he brings a warning not from his long experience as a Vatican insider or as a diplomat, but a more direct ...

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference, attends the opening of the interreligious meeting "The Cry of Peace" in Rome Oct. 23, 2022. Cardinal Zuppi will lead Pope Francis' ...

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In 1990, during the filming of a documentary that explored an alternative interpretation for the events that became known as the “Apparitions of Our Lady” and “The Miracle of the Sun”, in the year ...

The apparition of Mary, the mother of Christ, to three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 has long fascinated Roman Catholics and others intrigued by the vision's prophetic messages, particularly ...

It is a Vatican rule: candidates for sainthood wait five years beyond their deaths before the Catholic Church begins its investigation of their “heroic virtue,” the first step toward canonization.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Marian apparitions at Fatima in Portugal are one of the most famous apparitions in the world. However, many people do not know the whole story of the three shepherd children ...