New details have emerged about the Vatican’s first investigation of the famous stigmata of St. Pio of Petrelcina. The renowned saint — who died exactly 40 years ago today on Sept. 23, 1968 — was first ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. 'The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy', by the historian Sergio ...

Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who deliberately ...

IRELAND:Suggestions in a new book that the saint Padre Pio faked his stigmata through the use of carbolic acid on his hands have been dismissed by a spokesman for Ireland's Catholic bishops. He noted ...