Padre Pio was, by all accounts, a remarkable man. Born in 1887, he lived to be 81, serving for many decades as a Franciscan friar before being canonized by the Catholic Church in 2002. He was an ...

First thing’s first, Abel Ferrara’s latest film “Padre Pio” can’t exactly be described as a biographical drama about Francesco Forgione, the Franciscan Capuchin friar whose stigmata and mystical ...

Ferrara’s latest feature, premiering in Venice's "Venice Days" sidebar, stars the actor as an Italian friar who rose to prominence at a time when fascist powers began to take over the country. By ...

In this film directed by Abel Ferrara, Shia LaBeouf gives viewers a contemporary version of the saint — that is, one who curses a blue streak. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Various historical testimonies document that the beloved St. Pio of Pietrelcina (commonly known as Padre Pio), whose feast day is celebrated on Sept. 23, had the gift of xenoglossia — that is, he was ...