Known as the stigmata, Catholics view evidence ... around the world have received invitations to attend Padre Pio’s canonization in St. Peter’s at the Vatican. Polifka does not plan to attend ...

The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that erupted on ...

This is a trend that began at the turn of the millennium with another charismatic saint, Padre Pio of ... A poor friar, Pio ...