With a new movie in theaters, starring Shia LaBeouf, many people are looking into the life and legacy of the Catholic priest and saint known as Padre Pio. LaBeouf himself has been so inspired ...

A habit worn by St. Pio of Pietrelcina and other rare relics are coming to the U.S., brought by Capuchin friars from the very monastery that was home to the beloved saint known as Padre Pio.

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II made it official Sunday: Padre Pio, long regarded by followers as a saint, was canonized in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Square that drew one of the largest ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, ITALY — The exhumed and cosmetically enhanced corpse of Padre Pio, mystic monk and one of the world’s most revered saints, went on display here Thursday amid weeping ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As a way to mark the commemoratives connected to St. Padre Pio this year, Brian Hall, president of Joseph G. Hall Monument Company, donated an etching-on-marble-slab of St ...

Banners advertising the relics’ national tour bear the avuncular bearded visage of Padre Pio, or St. Pio of Pietrelcina. He is often shown wearing his iconic friar’s habit, and fingerless ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Islanders will have an opportunity to celebrate the life of Saint Padre Pio on April 26, when the Rev. Jack Rathschmidt, a Capuchin Franciscan friar, visits Holy ...

St. Padre Pio, a beloved Italian friar who died nearly 50 years ago, will be visiting Vineland this weekend — or at least a part of him will. The saint’s heart will make a stop at Our Lady of ...

Peter and Paul Catholic Church Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Francesco Forgione, known as Padre Pio or St. Pio, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar ...

One of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. His tomb can be found in the ...