Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” the five wounds of Jesus in his own body. He bore the wounds until his ...

Padre Pio (1887-1968), an Italian priest and stigmatic, was elevated to sainthood in 2002 as St. Pio of Pietrelcino. In the 1940s he heard the confession of the future Pope John Paul II and–John Paul ...

What a profound honor to live during the 800th anniversary of the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi! That a man like St. Francis would so love God as to receive Our Lord’s marks from the cross on his ...

Modern claims of mysterious bleeding still met with fear and awe. Oct. 28, 2008— -- Every decade, people around the globe come forward to claim that they spontaneously bleed and bruise without an ...

A woman touches a statue of St. Padre Pio in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the Shrine of St. Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, March 16. Pope Francis was to visit the ...

2007: what a year. The penultimate chapter of the second Bush administration saw the launch of a lot of darkly subversive polemics: M.I.A.’s Kala (featuring “Paper Planes”), Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...

The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings by American Spectator Editor Paul Kengor will be published on September 3, 2024. You can purchase the book here. The date was September ...

In an article published by the L’Osservatore Romano, Francesco Castelli, a biographer of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, has revealed details of the first investigation in 1921 by the Holy Office—now the ...

WHEN Stigmata made its debut on cinema screens in January 2000 it was dismissed as just another super paranoid new millennium potboiler. There were certainly any number of dodgy 'We’re all going to ...

He works in mysterious ways.