Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BIOGRAPHY:A SAINT STUDY Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age By Sergio Luzzatto Translated by Frederika Randall Because 90 percent of Italians ...

ROME — Known around the globe as simply “Padre Pio,” Saint Pio of Pietrelcina has been called one of the “most active” saints in the Church, and continues to work miracles for those who pray through ...

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Author Colm Keane researched almost 60 Irish miracles directly attributed to the Capuchin friar for a fascinating new book On his travels through Italy, shortly after the end of World War II, Irish ...

Padre Pio was a stigmatic and mystic, and he is arguably Ireland's favourite saint. From the first appearance in 1918 of the stigmata, or 'five wounds of Christ', many powers have been attributed to ...

You might remember C. Everett Koop — he served as U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan from1981 through 1989. Dr. Koop, who died in 2013, was best known for raising our national awareness ...

Alex Quinn, Belfast songwriter, explains how Padre Pio's help for his son, Philip, inspired him to write a song in honour of the saint: When my son was 15 he was sent home from school with a sore head ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II made it official Sunday: Padre Pio, long regarded by followers as a saint, was canonized in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Square that drew one of the largest crowds ever ...

The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims today as it went on display 40 years after his death. During his lifetime the ...

It was supposed to be a cause for celebration, but the long-awaited arrival of Saint Padre Pio's tomb in an elaborate purposely-built church in Italy has outraged worshippers for its 'pomp' and glitz.