The letter recognizes the pastoral value of the phenomenon and authorizes public worship without commenting on the ...

One must be careful, moreover, to distinguish both ESP and spiritualism from authentic religious experiences. So-called psychic phenomena and religious experiences are two different categories ...

Dreher writes movingly about his own spiritual awakening as a teenager visiting Chartes Cathedral in France, and later in watching the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and reading “The Divine Comedy.” ...

ROME – Since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of alleged Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena two months ago, the Vatican has put out rulings on several cases ...

In the foreword for the nearly 20-page document, approved by Pope Francis Aug. 28, the DDF said, “The time has come to conclude a long and complex history that has surrounded the spiritual ...

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, the ...

In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.