Greeting the Padre Pio Prayer Groups Francis says that prayer "is not a good practice for peace of heart, neither a pious way to obtain from God what we need. If it were so, it would be moved by a ...

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 pray through ...

Wednesday was the feast day of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio. We recognize saints’ feast days as a way to honor and emulate their example, and to draw close to them, as we would ...

Francesco Forgione was born in Pietrelcina, in southern Italy, in 1887. His parents were poor farmers, whose eight children attended Mass and prayed the Rosary daily, and abstained from meat three ...

The following letter from Julius Babao, who just came back from a trip to Italy with wife Tintin Bersola, says it all: My only knowledge of Padre Pio at that time were from pictures that I have seen ...

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Alex Quinn, Belfast songwriter, explains how Padre Pio's help for his son, Philip, inspired him to write a song in honour of the saint: When my son was 15 he was sent home from school with a sore head ...

Devotees of Saint Padre Pio in the Philippines say the visit of a woman who testifies that the new saint cured her years ago of blindness has brought "miracles" and more into their lives. During a ...

Padre Pio's body has been exhumed and is on public display in San Giovanni Rotondo for the first time, 40 years after his death in 1968. His body is being displayed in a crystal, marble and silver ...