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What has the Catholic Church said about Medjugorje? A timeline

September 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 20

The Church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. / Credit: Miropink/Shutterstock

Rome Newsroom, Sep 18, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA).
After more than four decades of investigation into alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia a… […]

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Vatican announces press conference on ‘spiritual experience’ of Medjugorje

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Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News

ACI Prens… […]

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Vatican approves devotion to 1945 apparition of Our Lady of Sorrows in Spain 

August 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Vatican has accepted the decree of an archbishop approving the spiritual activities of the Catholic Shrine of Chandavila in the town of La Codosera in Badajoz, Spain, where Our Lady of Sorrows is alleged to have appeared to two young girls a… […]

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Sister Agnes Sasagawa, Our Lady of Akita visionary, dies at 93

August 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

A Japanese nun holds her arms out as she prays at a chapel in her convent in Nagasaki, Japan. / Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

St. Louis, Mo., Aug 17, 2024 / 07:52 am (CNA).
Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a Japanese nun whose purported visions of the … […]

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Vatican approves India’s Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Health ahead of shrine’s feast day 

August 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The Vatican has approved devotion at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Health in Vailankanni, India, the site of reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the 16th century.   / Credit: Sajanj/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Vatican City, Aug 8, 2024 /… […]

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Vatican approves ‘Our Lady of the Rock’ shrine at alleged Marian apparition site in Italy

July 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News

Rome News… […]

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Vatican reveals details about 1974 ruling on alleged ‘Lady of All Nations’ apparition

July 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Lady of All Nations painting. / Credit: Judgefloro (shifted, cropped & recoloured by Rabanus Flavus), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rome Newsroom, Jul 11, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA).
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Fait… […]

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‘Mystical Rose’ Marian apparitions in Italy receive Vatican approval

July 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News

Washingto… […]

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Vatican rules supposed apparitions of Virgin Mary near Rome ‘not supernatural’

June 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Salvi has determined that the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Trevignano Romano are not supernatural. / Credit: Shutterstock

Rome Newsroom, Jun 27, 2024 / 11:38 am (CNA).
The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith anno… […]

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BREAKING: New norms give Vatican greater say on alleged apparitions

May 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 23

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Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 05:33 am (CNA).
The Vatican’s top doctrinal office is centralizing its authority over the investigation of alleged Marian apparitions and other religious phenomena under new norms it issued Frid… […]

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