When I enter a Catholic sacred space as a survivor of clerical sexual abuse, I carry more than just my faith. I carry the weight of betrayal, the constant calculation of safety and an acute awareness ...

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 ...

This week, the Vatican officially approved religious pilgrimages to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. While it didn't declare that the apparitions ...

These lesser-known apparitions of Gietrzwald in Poland have striking echoes of Our Lady's visits to Lourdes and Fatima. Fatima and Lourdes are household names when it comes to approved apparitions of ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – By comparing Medjugorje, a site ...

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 ...

LOURDES, France — As we reflect now here in the hallowed ground of Lourdes, we feel that we did not only grow spiritually in our Catholic and Christian life. We also learned important lessons in life.

Lourdes versus Fatima: it is practically a war of the sanctuaries, as two different visions are clashing on how to address the case of the former Jesuit (but still priest) Marko Rupnik, accused of ...

BORDEAUX, France — The best of France is not the Eiffel Tower, nor the Arch de Tromphe, not even the just renovated Cathedral of Notra Dame. The best is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, as the ...