Consider Servant of God Rhoda Wise (1888-1948), a Catholic laywoman, wife, and mother from Canton, Ohio. Born to ...

Catholic artist Timothy P. Schmalz calls Padre Pio his favorite saint. And so, when he learned that four of his sculptures would honor the Italian mystic on his feast day — Sept. 23 — he was overjoyed ...

Broken Saintess Season 2 premieres October 1, 2026 on TV Kanagawa with new director Saya Fukase. The anime's ...

If St. Padre Pio gave you advice, would you take it? If you were smart, you would! Padre Pio was an exceptionally holy man. A Capuchin friar in Italy during the 20th-century, Padre Pio had the ...

In Italy, as in other Mediterranean countries, the sacred and the profane exist side by side. There is nothing like a good shrine, for example, to attract a raggle-taggle of sausage vendors, post card ...

When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under ...

The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a ...

An interview with Father John Aurilia, a Capuchin monk who served as a personal secretary to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, has attracted more than 100,000 views in the month ...

Many parishes in the Philadelphia region hold festivals. Few of them offer the opportunity for prayers of healing with relics of a saint amidst the food and entertainment. St. Bede the Venerable ...

STURBRIDGE/FISKDALE - Dana Babcock didn’t have time to go venerate Padre Pio’s relics. But, “I’m here,” she noted, after the Mass Bishop McManus celebrated Tuesday at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...

The National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania, is displaying relics of St. Padre Pio in an exhibit traveling throughout the nation and one of the stops will be at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...

(OSV News) — 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 ...