The following letter from Julius Babao, who just came back from a trip to Italy with wife Tintin Bersola, says it all: My only knowledge of Padre Pio at that time were from pictures that I have seen ...

Francesco Forgione was born in Pietrelcina, in southern Italy, in 1887. His parents were poor farmers, whose eight children attended Mass and prayed the Rosary daily, and abstained from meat three ...

Just now at 3:17 a.m., I finished reading the last page of an extraordinary book. Entitled Prophet of the People – A Biography of Padre Pio by Dorothy M. Gaudiose, it is but one of the many writings ...

They came by the hundreds, by the busloads and by the carloads — pilgrims traveled hundreds of miles from at least five states to view and honor relics of St. Padre Pio Wednesday at St. Joseph the ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

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, they were very ...

SHENANDOAH – The Padre Pio Healing Ministry of Divine Mercy Roman Catholic Church in Shenandoah hosted the celebration of a healing Mass on Friday evening in St. Casimir Roman Catholic Church, which ...

Physicians in the Philippines have lately composed the growing army of art collectors that has made the Philippines a vibrant market for contemporary art in the region. But not quite known is that ...

The presence of Padre Pio’s relics also brought a standing-room-only Mass at 12:10 at the cathedral, as well as to a 7 p.m. Mass at which Callahan presided. The Saint Pio Foundation raises funds for ...