Frank Shouldice: 'I travelled to the Balkans quite a bit, and I found the idea that the pilgrim site of Medjugorje operated through a war in Bosnia remarkable.' The young Frank adored sport — ...

At the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit and give birth to a Son who She will name Jesus who is the Son of ...

For the millions of people whose lives have already been changed through visiting Medjugorje since 1981, the Nihil Obstat for its ‘spiritual proposal’ was a cause of great joy and encouragement. There ...

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, the pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon there as a call to make this ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town ...

With the Sept. 19, 2024, announcement from the Vatican granting a nihil obstat to the spiritual experiences at Medjugorje, people may wonder about the current lives of the six visionaries who were all ...

After 43 years of controversy, the Vatican has finally ruled on the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has given the green light for ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian landmark received mixed messages from the Vatican on Thursday after the Church refused to say whether their ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

Beth Racine had just come out of church after confession in Medjugorje and was leaning against a wall when something caught her eye. A disc covered the sun. She saw swirling colors to the sides — red ...

After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in a document ...

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