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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

HERE’S A CURIOUS THOUGHT. Maybe the single most important person in the 20th century’s long struggle against communism wasn’t Ronald Reagan. Maybe it wasn’t Karol Wojtyla or Margaret Thatcher, Lech ...

Pope Benedict XVI leads a vespers service at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2010. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters) The Shrine of Fátima is not considering ...