(RNS) The apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima and the secret prophecies that three shepherd children say she vouchsafed to them are 100 years old this year — but they are getting more attention ...

The “Miracle of the Sun,” witnessed by thousands of Portuguese pilgrims Oct. 13, 1917, at Fatima, capped an amazing six months in which the Blessed Mother appeared to three simple shepherd children ...

Oct. 13, 1917, marked the last Marian apparition in Fátima and the day on which thousands of people bore witness to the miracle of the dancing sun — a miracle that shattered the prevalent belief at ...

Michael O’Neill does. A self-described skeptic with an engineering degree from Stanford University, he has researched and documented miracles. On Thursday at 7 p.m., O’Neill will discuss the 100th ...

In what might be mistaken for a God-forsaken corner of central Portugal, tens of thousands witnessed an apparition, and the lonely little town of Fatima became a major pilgrimage site for Catholics.

John Thavis, a longtime Vatican journalist, has penned a wide-ranging work that chronicles the Church’s complex relationship with harmonizing rational faith with the world of miracles. Part ...

A crowd of people near Fatima, Portugal, watch the Miracle of the Sun on October 13, 1917. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.) Listen Atheists love to mock miracles, and the miracle of the sun ...

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