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Pope Francis dismisses reports of continuing apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the Medjugorje shrine in southern Bosnia. He says the visions "don't have much value" even if the shrine can help Catholics find God.
Faith
The Editors
Updates on Pope Francis’ trip to Fatima as well as the canonization of Jacinta and Francisco Marto.
Pilgrims arrive at the Marian shrine of Fatima May 10 in central Portugal (CNS photo/Paulo Cunha, EPA).
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
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.
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. (CNS photo/EPA)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
On Saturday Pope Francis will canonize two of the children who saw the Marian apparitions in 1917.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Eloise Blondiau
If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale' shows us.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Steven DeLaney
On the long trip home they stopped in Glanmore