Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent devotion to Mary, but no reference was made to the rosary, nor to any Marian devotion, or apparition. (No specific Marian ...

The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children ...

As of 2024, All About Mary is no longer being updated with new content ... after the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption and reached its climax after Vatican II; the exception to this Marian ...

The Vatican’s doctrine office didn’t declare that the reported apparitions in Medjugorje were authentic or of supernatural ...

The Vatican has approved Marian devotion at Medjugorje without pronouncing on the authenticity of alleged apparitions, ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman ...

With this text, Vatican II stated decisively that “all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status, are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity ...

Mary Margaret's door ... priest serving as a theological adviser to a Redemptorist bishop during Vatican II. This allowed him access to all sessions, as well to the hallways and elevators where ...

For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the second most important man in the Vatican is a Kentucky Colonel. He is also an honorary chief of the Osage Indians. For last ...

While today’s scholars tend to focus in their study of Vatican II on “what happened at the council” or on how the implementation of the council’s decrees played out, a less developed but ...

By Jason Horowitz The ruling by the Vatican court signaled the church’s desire to get its financial house in order following past scandals. By Elisabetta Povoledo “Merchants in the Temple ...

ROME—In a highly anticipated report on the alleged decadeslong apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday endorsed prudent devotion to Mary at the ...