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By Alyssa Murphy, National Catholic Register - One of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. His tomb can be found in the Sanctuary of St. Mary Our Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy... Padre Pio is known for his deep wisdom about prayer and peace, his stigmata, miraculous reports of his bilocation, being physically attacked by the devil, and mastering the spiritual life... As the Church celebrates his feast day on Sept. 23, here’s a look at 13 facts about St. Pio’s life and faith.

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing - In 1984, as a young man of nineteen, I returned from a year of testing my vocation to the religious life. We had been deprived, or rather liberated, from the television for that period. On my short vacation afterwards, I went off to Blockbuster and rented a VHS tape of a popular new movie called “The Terminator.”... It showed a future world where machines were at war with humans, and machines, or as we would call them today, “drones,” killed. It was a science-fiction movie. Forty-one years later, what was fantasy is now reality .....