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 ...

St. Padre Pio and the Confessional. St. Padre Pio had the ability to look within the souls of his penitents and became so well known for it, ...

John Paul, dressed in gold and white vestments, also recalled how in 1947, as a young priest, he had journeyed from his native Poland so that Padre Pio could hear his confession. Advertisement ...

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 ...

Francis celebrated Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo. Prayer, smallness and wisdom are the fundamental elements of Padre Pio's teaching. The visit to the little sick in the House of relief of suffering ...

A priest of the Capuchin order, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was celebrated for his commitment to the confessional and for displaying signs of “stigmata,” the wounds in his hands, feet and side ...

Church historians say Padre Pio was said to have the ability to read souls and often spent up to 16 hours a day hearing confession. He was said to have healing powers. It's an ability Ann Hartnett ...

Pope: Padre Pio, 'apostle of the confessional' who taught to us 'how to become small Francis celebrated Mass in San Giovanni Rotondo. Prayer, smallness and wisdom are the fundamental elements of ...