Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions. In a decree signed on June 22, the Pope recognized Lucia’s heroic virtue ...

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 ...

DRACUT — To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions at Fatima, all are welcome to St. Francis Church, 115 Wheeler Road, Dracut, to pray for world peace on Saturday, May 13. Mass begins at 9 ...

Six Berks County Roman Catholic parishes will conduct special liturgical services to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1917 apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. Most of the area parishes are ...

80,000 copies go on sale to mark centenary of Virgin Mary's appearance before three children in Portugal Two of the four designs of the commemorative stamps issued by the Philippine Postal Corporation ...

Pope Francis arrived in Portugal on Friday to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima—honoring the sort of grass-roots devotion that can bolster the ...

On Oct. 13, 2016, Catholics commemorate the 99th anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun”: In a small town in Portugal, called Fátima, the sun left its place in the sky and spiraled toward earth. This ...

Ridley Township >> A Friday Mass celebrating the eternal lady for which it was named commenced a special weekend at Our Lady of Fatima church in Secane. Participants of the Divine Providence and Don ...

Portuguese shepherd children Lucia dos Santos, center, and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, are seen in a file photo taken around the time of the 1917 apparitions of Mary at Fatima. (Credit: ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Marian apparitions at Fatima in Portugal are one of the most famous apparitions in the world. However, many people do not know the whole story of the three shepherd children ...

One million pilgrims are expected to join Pope Francis in Fatima on May 12 to 13 for the centenary celebration of the apparitions of Our Lady to three Portuguese shepherd children, and to declare the ...

A statue of Mary is carried through the crowd in 2013 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in central Portugal. (Credit: Paulo Cunha/EPA via CNS.) Listen The apparitions at Fatima are the key moment of ...