VATICAN CITY — On Saturday, Pope Francis will make a short trip to the Italian towns of Pietrelcina and San Giovanni Rotondo, the places where St. Padre Pio was born and lived his life and where his ...

A procession opens a Sept. 23, 2020, Mass during the dedication of 40 acres of land in Howell, Mich., donated for the planned “Casa USA” project. The complex will include a replica of St. Pio of ...

Don Zirkel, whose conversation from a year ago drew the most responses (all positive) of any of the 40 published to date, called from Florida to encourage me to interview Harry Hunt, a man whose life ...

Tura (Fides Service) – A hospital and a home for unmarried mothers and abandoned children are the latest additions to a compound dedicated to Saint Pio da Pietrelcina in Thakmagre, in Tura diocese, ...

Camesha Leen with Sr. Vittoria of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the hospital Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza. The mother of a young Kerry woman who had spinal surgery in Italy last month ...

Tura (Fides Service) – Padre Pio School in the diocese of Tura in north west India is already fully functioning with intense activity. The local Catholics are deeply devoted to the Franciscan friar, ...