LOURDES, France – Pope John Paul II joined other ailing pilgrims Saturday for a weekend of prayer at a cliffside shrine to the Virgin Mary, where Roman Catholics seek hope, inner peace and miraculous ...

The French documentary film Lourdes will be shown in 700 theaters in the U.S., for a special two-day screening, on Feb. 8 (in French with English subtitles) and Feb. 9 (in Spanish with English ...

“Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou.” I am the Immaculate Conception. In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke these hallowed words to Bernadette Soubirous, a teenager of 14 years old. Uneducated and ...

Pope Benedict XVI has authorized a plenary indulgence for anyone taking part in any public or private devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes during this anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Lourdes.

The Roman Catholic pilgrimage shrine at Lourdes may introduce a kind of "miracle light" category for sudden, unexplained recoveries, because modern medicine increasingly refuses to declare any disease ...

It is tempting to use the word “miraculous” to describe “Lourdes,” Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai’s quasi-mystical portrait of the French holy site, and it wouldn’t be excessive to do so. But it ...

“France?” exclaims one astonished Irishwoman. “I thought you were going to Lourdes?!” The 1960s-era village from which the pilgrims depart in “The Miracle Club” isn’t a particularly sophisticated ...