When the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children at Fatima, she asked that certain devotions be followed in order to bring peace to the world. The most well-known of her requests is ...

It’s helpful when pastors take the lead in promoting this devotion, but proponents stress that the key is for grassroots Catholics to commit themselves to carrying out this ‘unfulfilled’ part of ...

Try as he might to insist that a tight focus on the details of the Fatima revelations is a prescription for mischief, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the world’s most celebrated Marian shrine inevitably ...

Locals and swarms of pilgrims from various parts of the world gathered in Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome recently to show their Marian devotion and join in communal prayer. From April 3-7, the ...

Deacon James T. Munuhe of St. James Church in Charles Town, W.Va., helps bless the parish’s new Our Lady of Fatima Shrine during its Oct. 14 dedication. (Credit: CNS photo/Colleen Rowan, The Catholic ...

In a sense, there have always been two Fatimas in the popular Catholic imagination. One is a gentle devotion focused on Mary’s appearances to three illiterate shepherd children, an icon of God’s ...

Catholics gathered for a day of prayer and devotions prior to celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Fatima at a Bangkok church named in her honor. More than 300 devotees took part in "A Day with Mary" ...

Pope John Paul II is assisted by aides after being shot in St. Peter’s Square May 13, 1981. He was greeting pilgrims on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. (Credit: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano.) Mehmet Ali ...

LOS ANGELES — There have been a number of Marian apparitions approved by the Catholic Church, but none has generated more devotions — and controversy — than those that occurred in Fátima, Portugal, in ...

RIVERVIEW, MI – A Detroit-area chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and her appearance to children in Europe in 1917 has been declared a local Roman Catholic shrine. Detroit Archbishop Allen H.