The video made in the square of Baiano (Avellino) has now gone viral, immortalizing a group of very young people who, after having climbed over a fence, climbed onto the statue of Padre Pio and ...

Various historical testimonies document that the beloved St. Pio of Pietrelcina (commonly known as Padre Pio), whose feast day is celebrated on Sept. 23, had the gift of xenoglossia — that is ...

Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, was born to Giuseppe and Grazio Forgione in Pietrelcina, Italy on May 25, 1887. Although the Forgiones were basically a poor family ...

St. Padre Pio was the first priest who is said to have borne the stigmata — the wounds of Christ — on his hands, his side and his feet. A statue of St. Padre Pio draped with bills, was on ...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio, an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and mystic who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, experienced a stigmata that replicated the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Thousands of visitors waited in line Tuesday outside a Naperville Catholic church, to get a glimpse of items that once belonged to Padre Pio, the patron saint of the sick and healing.

There is no subtext to Padre Pio’s statements about how fascists take power. There is only text, and the text is written with an astounding lack of grace; characters simply say all the quiet ...

There’s also the problem that this is supposed to be a movie about Padre Pio, who nonetheless never quite comes into focus either conceptually or in performance. The real-life figure’s ...

But few have done it in quite the memorably disturbing manner as writer-director Abel Ferrara with “Padre Pio.” In “The Decalogue,” the great Polish-Catholic director Krzysztof Kieślowski ...