VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II, who himself once turned to Padre Pio seeking a cure for an ailing friend, raised the mystic Italian monk to sainthood Sunday to the cheers of some 200,000 pilgrims ...

When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under ...

In the harbor of Brittany’s St. Malo last week a trim, white two-masted ketch named St. Yves rocked at her moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk thundered ...