The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For the Vatican, reports of supernatural ...

Site of devotion to the Madonna of Trevignano. (Credit: Facebook.) Listen ROME – In the wake of new Vatican rules perceived as an effort to clamp down on alleged apparitions and other spiritual ...

(RNS) — This Friday, the Vatican will release a document with new norms for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena, the first time those norms have been updated since 1978.

The Marian apparitions claimed to have taken place outside of Rome were decreed "not supernatural" by the local bishop. Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary ...

In accordance with new Vatican norms on alleged supernatural phenomena, an Italian bishop has given his "nihil obstat" acknowledging the pastoral and spiritual value of devotion to Our Lady of the ...

The Pontifical International Marian Academy has created a commission to study and monitor cases of alleged Marian apparitions and other mystical phenomena. The new "observatory" or monitoring body was ...