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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FATIMA, Portugal — This is Mary country, even long before the mother of Jesus Christ first appeared to three shepherd children May 13, 1917, calling for peace in a war-torn world. A 12th-century ...

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 ...

The public is invited to join the Sacred Heart Sisters during the Fatima Centenary Walking Pilgrimage Saturday from their convent at 1872 Munster Road, Portage, to Loretto. The day begins with 8 a.m.

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 ...

Faithful from in and around Portland, Ore. filled St. Mary's Cathedral to overflowing on June 28 for Archbishop Alexander Sample's Mass consecrating the archdiocese to Our Lady of Fatima. The Mass and ...