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 ...

Padre Pio’s two halves stubbornly, constantly butt heads with each other, stories in catastrophic disharmony.There are dueling movies here, one significantly worse than the other; the first ...

The weight of playing St. Pio of Pietrelcina, more popularly known as Padre Pio, one of the most popular saints of the 20th century, was “enormous,” Shia LaBeouf told CNA in late May. The new ...

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 ve… ...

A tapestry depicting Padre Pio hangs from the central balcony on the facade of St. Peter's Basilica during his canonization ceremony June 16. (CNS photo from Reuters) (June 17, 2002) See PADREPIO ...

Padre Pio is known in part for his prophetic ability, his healing power and receiving the stigmata. But during his life and after his death, these expressions of the 20th-century saint’s ...

The mystery of religious faith gets a ferocious and deeply contextualized workout in Abel Ferrara’s latest film, “Padre Pio,” which opens Friday. It’s an idiosyncratic not-quite bio-pic of ...