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Vatican City, May 13, 2017 / 01:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Asked by journalists about the alleged appearance of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, Pope Francis said the original apparitions more than three decades ago deserve further study, but voiced doubt in the supposed ongoing visions.He stressed the need to distinguish between the two sets of apparitions, referencing a report submitted to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by a commission set up to study the apparitions by Benedict XVI in 2010.“The first apparitions, which were to children, the report more or less says that these need to continue being studied,” he said, but as for “presumed current apparitions, the report has its doubts.”“I personally am more suspicious, I prefer the Madonna as Mother, our Mother, and not a woman who’s the head of an office, who every day sends a message at a certain hour. This is not the Mother of Jesus. And these presumed apparitions d...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesFATIMA, Portugal (CNS) -- Our Lady of Fatima's message of peace to a countrysuffering from war and persecution resonates today just as it did a century ago, a Venezuelan pilgrim said. Jose Antonio dosSantos told Catholic News Service May 13 that he came to Fatima to "ask the Virgin of Fatima the same thingshe offered in her message 100 years ago, which was peace for Portugal andfreedom for the Portuguese people who were oppressed." Amidthe hundreds of thousands of pilgrims waving a myriad of banners and flags at the100th anniversary celebration of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, dosSantos stood tall in the front row, waving a large Venezuelan flag that read: "Virgin deFatima, te pido libertad para Venezuela" ("Virgin of Fatima, I askfor freedom for Venezuela.")Dos Santos, along with his sister Natalia and fellowcountrymen Adrian Pita and David Pereira, were camped out in the shrine'ssquare since the early morning May 12 in the hopes th...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL (CNS) -- While theinvestigations into the very first alleged apparitions at Medjugorje in mustcontinue, Pope Francis said he has doubts about claims that Mary continues toappear in the village of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Asked May 13 about the authenticity of the Marianapparitions, which reportedly began in 1981, the pope referred to the findingsof a commission chaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the retired papal vicar ofRome."The report has its doubts, but personally, I am alittle worse," the pope told reporters traveling with him from Fatima,Portugal. "I prefer Our Lady as mother, our mother, and not Our Lady ashead of the post office who sends a message at a stated time.""This isn't Jesus' mother," he said. "Andthese alleged apparitions don't have much value. I say this as a personalopinion, but it is clear. Who thinks that Our Lady says, 'Come, becausetomorrow at this time I will give a message to tha...
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The mother of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself after she says he was bullied at school pledges to speak out on his behalf....
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Francis says he won't try to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to soften his policies on immigration and the environment when they meet this month, but wants instead to find common ground and work for peace....
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Donald Trump, the real estate mogul-turned-president, offered simple words of advice to university graduates Saturday as he urged them to follow their convictions, prepare to face criticism and relish the opportunity to be an "outsider."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we can make a fast decision" on a new FBI director, possibly by late next week, before he leaves on his first foreign trip since taking office....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn't apply Microsoft's March software fix, and a software design that allowed the malware to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks....
LONDON (AP) -- A global "ransomware" cyberattack, unprecedented in scale, had technicians scrambling to restore Britain's crippled hospital network Saturday and secure the computers that run factories, banks, government agencies and transport systems in many other nations....
Vatican Weekend for May 13th, 2017 features highlights from Pope Francis’ 24-hour pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Fatima in Portugal and a special program retelling the story of the spectacular solar phenomenon that took place on the day of the final apparition by Our Lady of Fatima.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
