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 ...

Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age By Sergio Luzzatto Translated by Frederika Randall Because 90 percent of Italians are Catholic, a writer might be wary of publishing a ...

In the case of Padre Pio, the first miracle was the unexplained 1995 recovery of an Italian woman with a chest ailment, and the second was the 2000 recovery of a boy from a meningitis-induced coma.

She says her first husband's cancer was cured as a result of a miracle attributed to Saint Padre Pio in 1964. Bev Horne/[email protected] As hundreds of faithful filed through Naperville's Ss.

Padre Pio, who was born in 1887 and died in 1968, was canonized in 2002. The Capuchin friar was popular as a miracle worker and known particularly for the long hours he would spend hearing ...

The words "Padre Pio" are written across the bottom.Many Catholics consider Padre Pio the single greatest miracle-worker in history. In Italy, images of his face are everywhere.

You couldn't ask for a more apt affirmation of the title of Sergio Luzzatto's latest book, "Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age." In a church full of priceless frescoes by ...

Hundreds of devout Catholics lined up outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral to touch and kiss relics belonging to Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.

In his 2011 book, “Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age,” historian Sergio Luzzatto claimed that the priest used carbolic acid to create the bleeding.

Mario Bruschi is standing in front of a statue of Padre Pio in a courtyard of the Church of St. John the Baptist in midtown Manhattan, talking about the time four decades ago that he spent with the… ...

Catholic artist Timothy Schmalz calls Padre Pio his favorite saint. And so, when he learned that four of his sculptures would honor the Italian mystic on his feast day — Sept. 23 — he was ...

BUENA BOROUGH — Hundreds gathered Wednesday night at the roadside shrine to St. Padre Pio, as they do every week.