My mother had always been tense, angry, and sad. During her final days, she morphed into a magpie, happily addressing persons whom no one else could see.

Monday started with a headache that rattled me out of slumber around 3 a.m. I threw whatever meds I had at it, but it persisted and followed me to work. I was soaking my throbbing cranium in newsroom ...

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 ...

The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For the Vatican, reports of supernatural ...