Padre Pio dedicated his life to the sacrament of confession and widely promoted its prominence in the life of the believer, famously stating, “God runs after the most stubborn souls. They cost ...

A habit worn by St. Pio of Pietrelcina and other rare relics are coming to the U.S., brought by Capuchin friars from the very ...

5. Padre Pio heard confessions 12 to 15 hours a day. While listening to confessions, the saint would smell flowers as sins were confessed. Some penitents waited two weeks just to visit him in the ...

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 ...

Another scene in the film shows the devil appearing as an androgynous person coming to Padre Pio in confession and being unrepentant for sins, even to the point of denying the existence of God and ...

Padre Pio prophesied that Karol Wojtyła would become pope, that he healed a man with club feet and another who was blind, and that he could read souls. If someone did not confess every sin on ...

During his homily, Pope John Paul recalled how in 1947 as a young priest he had traveled from Poland to Italy to make his confession to Padre Pio. Drawing more than eight million pilgrims each ...

Rev. Michael Martine, pastor of Holy Rosary noted that Padre Pio was able to read people’s souls. Known for hearing confessions, people reportedly flocked to him from miles around. Father ...