This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) designated three churches as national shrines. Namely, these are ...

With the latest approvals, the Philippines has 33 national shrines. The Catholic Church recognizes national shrines for their ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Does the study of the "Catholic Mary" necessarily include the study of apparitions, and why are there so many titles that seem to attribute "adoration" of ...

Apparitions without a message tend to become inconsequential ... 4) The ubiquitous character of the phenomenon seems to indicate a trivializing tendency. Mary can be seen everywhere, from oil spills ...

We learn in Sacred Scripture that Saint Paul suffered from a nameless illness, perhaps malaria or a debilitating eye disorder ...

But Bernadette was stubborn and determined to follow Mary’s plans for her ... mother allowed her to return to the grotto. The Second Apparition - Sunday, February 14, 1858: The three little ...

There is reason to believe that at Tepeyac Mary came in her glorified body, and her actual physical hands rearranged the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma, which makes this apparition very special.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines declared three churches across the country as national shrines.

Some worshippers asserted that the Virgin Mary came to the Boston area to offer solace from ... While Schepici said the hospital has “no official position with respect to the issue of an apparition,” ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has designated three churches in Manila, Quezon City, and San Mateo, Rizal as national shrines.

The Edsa Shrine, a historic landmark built in remembrance of the bloodless 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution that toppled the ...