Noting he was expressing only his ‘personal opinion,’ the Pope said the original apparitions in the early 1980s are likelier to be authentic. Pope Francis speaks with journalists May 13 on the papal ...

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A woman who claims to be a visionary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje has said that Mary will no longer appear to her on the second 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 ...

Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series of stories and columns about Marian shrines and devotions and how Catholic sisters are connected with them. Srs. Adriana Galić, left, and Jelena ...

For over 42 years now, in the quiet rural village of Medjugorje in Bosnia, Hercegovina, our Most Holy Mother Mary has been appearing daily since June 24, 1981, originally to six youths, and later by ...

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — As a journalist covering the Vatican, I’ve obviously been aware for a long time of the debate that swirls around Medjugorje, the small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina where ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A visionary from Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina who says she has daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary will return to Alabama from July 1 through July 5. Marija Lunetti, one of ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME – Often placed in opposite sides of the ...

I first came to this part of Bosnia 15 years ago. Back then, a ferocious war was being fought, Europe's most violent conflict since the defeat of the Nazis. Bosnia was being torn apart - the three ...