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 overjoyed.

A documentary drama about the beloved 20th-century friar St. Pio of Pietrelcina, affectionately known as Padre Pio, will be making its television debut on EWTN on Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET. Co-produced by ...

An estimated 3,000 people are expected to pass through the doors of Naperville’s Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Francesco ...

More than 8,000 visitors — twice as many as expected — traveled to Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Naperville Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Also known as ...

Boston Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley speaks near a statue of St. Padre Pio during a Mass at the Shrine of St. Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, Sept. 23, 2022. Padre Pio was a dedicated ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – St. Pio, also known as Padre Pio, was born Francesco Forgione in Petrelcina, a town in the hills of the Samnium region of southern Italy on May 25, 1887. He grew up ...

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. Pio ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — To celebrate the 21st anniversary of St. Padre Pio’s canonization, members of the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society will host a procession and Mass to mark his feast day, (Sept. 23) ...

Did you know that Julius Babao and his wife Tintin Bersola are devotees of St. Pio to whom they prayed for intercession to have a second child? Tintin was then having difficulty conceiving so she did ...

Pope Francis prays in front of the body of St. Pio in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the Shrine of St. Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, March 17. (CNS/courtesy Shrine of ...

The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on Monday was filled with believers who came to kneel before the relics of St. Pio, the controversial Italian cleric who claimed to bear the ...