Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BIOGRAPHY:A SAINT STUDY Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age By Sergio Luzzatto Translated by Frederika Randall Because 90 percent of Italians ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Call it an unusual bucket list item, but last Saturday I went on a bus trip to the National Centre for Padre Pio in ...

Author Colm Keane researched almost 60 Irish miracles directly attributed to the Capuchin friar for a fascinating new book On his travels through Italy, shortly after the end of World War II, Irish ...

Padre Pio was a stigmatic and mystic, and he is arguably Ireland's favourite saint. From the first appearance in 1918 of the stigmata, or 'five wounds of Christ', many powers have been attributed to ...

You might remember C. Everett Koop — he served as U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan from1981 through 1989. Dr. Koop, who died in 2013, was best known for raising our national awareness ...

A new book by award-winning Bray-based journalist Colm Keane which chronicles miracles, cures and visions experienced by Irish devotees of Saint Padre Pio includes a miraculous occurrence in County ...

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 ...

Since 90 percent of Italians are Catholic, a writer might be wary of publishing a scrupulously researched takedown of a popular Italian saint. Yet with “Padre Pio” — the English translation of an ...

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 crowds ever ...