National Catholic Register

Akita’s Fatima Connection: Our Lady’s Messages to Sister Agnes Sasagawa

‘It is the message of Fatima,’ Bishop John Shojiro Ito, who formally approved the 1973 Marian apparitions, told the Japanese nun, who died this month. L to R: Seitai Hoshikai in Akita, Japan, where ...
National Catholic Register

How the ‘Miracle of the Sun’ in Fátima Helped to End an Atheist Regime

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 ...
America Magazine

You don’t have to believe in Marian apparitions. But I do.

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...