New details have emerged about the Vatican’s first investigation of the famous stigmata of St. Pio of Petrelcina. The renowned saint — who died exactly 40 years ago today on Sept. 23, 1968 — was first ...

NEW ORLEANS — One by one, the faithful walked toward the altar to see the blood of one of the most revered saints in the Catholic Church. The relics of St. Padre Pio are being taken on a national tour ...

Above, the hospital founded by Padre Pio was built in 1956 on the top of a hill in San Giovanni Rotondo. Today, it cares for more than 1 million patients. Below, Capuchin Father Robert Guenin ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio ...

Since 90 percent of Italians are Catholic, a writer might be wary of publishing a scrupulously researched takedown of a popular Italian saint. Yet with “Padre Pio” — the English translation of an ...