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Bosnian Roman Catholic women pray near a statue in Medjugorje in 2000. The Vatican has overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church history, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabricated. The new norms make clear that such an abuse …
Pope Francis exits in his popemobile after a Mass at which he canonized shepherd children Jacinta and Francisco Marto at Portugal’s Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima on the centenary of their 1917 visions of Mary. The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, in order to guard against hoaxes …
