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 monastery that was home to the beloved saint known as Padre Pio.

at first treated Padre Pio with cautious skepticism. While looking into the phenomenon, the Vatican forbade him to hear confessions or officiate at any public occasion. Only after two years of ...

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 ...

Confessions will be available 3-4 p.m., with ... He is related to St. Padre Pio and follows in his footsteps in many ways. Father Pio, who is named after the saint, received his First Holy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

at a parishioner whom he’s consigning to Hell (for her sexual confessions ... of class to America’s abuses of race.) In short, “Padre Pio” is a historical drama without historical distance ...