STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- To celebrate the 16th anniversary of St. Padre Pio’s canonization, members of the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society hosted a mass a Holy Rosary R.C. Church. The mass was ...

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 ...

UTICA — In 1964, Rocky Falatico developed a malignant brain tumor deemed inoperable by doctors. But 2-year-old Rocky made a miraculous recovery, his father said, after traveling to Italy to be blessed ...

Children in South Sudan, Burma, and Lebanon have joined a worldwide initiative to get one million kids to pray the rosary this year on Oct. 18. “One million children praying the rosary” is a prayer ...

One of the most fascinating, misunderstood and some might say morbid traditions of the Roman Catholic Church involves the veneration of relics — what the faithful believe to be fragments of saints’ ...

Just now at 3:17 a.m., I finished reading the last page of an extraordinary book. Entitled Prophet of the People – A Biography of Padre Pio by Dorothy M. Gaudiose, it is but one of the many writings ...

Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, was born to Giuseppe and Grazio Forgione in Pietrelcina, Italy on May 25, 1887. Although the Forgiones were basically a poor family, they were very ...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio, an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and mystic who was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, experienced a stigmata that replicated the ...

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the president of ACN, said that the 2021 rosary campaign seeks to encourage children to pray “hand in hand with Our Lady and under the protection of Saint Joseph.” Children ...