PIETRELCINA, Italy — Speaking Saturday in Pietrelcina, the town where St. Padre Pio was born, Pope Francis encouraged devotion to Holy Mother Church, explaining how despite the imperfection of its ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (AP) - Pope Francis on Saturday traveled to southern Italy to honor a hugely popular Italian saint, Padre Pio, praying silently before a glass display case holding the ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis prayed on Saturday before the body of one of Catholicism's most popular saints, Padre Pio, a mystic monk who is said to have wrestled with the ...

Government officials and religious leaders of Pietrelcina, Italy, appeared in a press conference in Pietrelcina with the CEO of the New York-based Saint Pio Foundation. The parties announced the ...