Every shrine — from the first ones set up by patriarch Abraham on his journeys to the Marian sanctuaries today — is linked to history. What happened here, to make this a holy place? How did God act ...

COLUMBUS — A local Catholic church will be welcoming parishioners and visitors later this month to see a statue of the Virgin Mary. The International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will ...

ST. AGNES-OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH was created in March 1980 when two preexisting parishes, both in the HOUGH neighborhood, were merged. ST. AGNES dated to 1893, but the church building had been ...

The centenary of the apparitions at Fatima invites us to look back at 1917, a year in which an old world order gave way to a new, more lethal one. The apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima are well known ...

After Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Jeff Ghering watched and prayed as his rosary and wedding band were touched to the mantle of the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Ghering said the ...

NEW BEDFORD — Two churches in the North End have closed their doors and parishioners will now worship at St. Mary's Church on Tarkiln Hill Road. Parishioners of Our Lady of Fatima and St. Joseph-St.