Thirteen votes in favor of recognizing the supernatural nature of the first seven appearances in Medjugorje, one vote against and one "suspensive" ballot, which will give a final answer later. A ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Francis Arinze has said the continued wait for a papal decision on the authenticity of the Medjugorje apparitions shows they are not so easy to verify or disprove, but the ...

The Vatican on Thursday issued a statement acknowledging that spiritual "fruits" had come from the site of controversial purported apparitions of the Virgin Mary — while also stopping short of saying ...

The Franciscan was in Spain last week for the 15th Ibero-American Congress on the Queen of Peace organized by the Medjugorje Center Foundation. Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, is pastor of the parish ...

The commission that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has asked his envoy to a Bosnian shrine to stay on the job indefinitely to provide pastoral support to the millions of Catholics drawn there by reports of apparitions of ...

Pope Francis has named as apostolic visitor to Medjugorje the Polish archbishop he had initially sent to the town as his personal envoy to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and of the ...

Thousands have been transformed by what has happened in the small mountain village of Medjugorje, in the mountains of Bosnia/Herzegovina. Alleged apparitions of the Blessed Mother to six village ...

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 ...

The shrine at Medjugorje where six young people said Mary appeared to them daily starting in 1981. Listen In the early 1980s, six children in the Yugoslavian town of Medjugorje reported seeing visions ...

(Reuters) Six children first reported visions of the Virgin Mary in 1981 in the Bosnian village of Medjugorje. Francis cast doubt on reports of visions since then. ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) ...