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 ...

The year 2019 has been an eventful one for Tobin Ortenblad (Santa Cruz / Donkey Label Racing), to say the least. Ortenblad started the year recovering from a collarbone injury suffered last December ...

In his TV series and accompanying book, Civilisation, Sir Kenneth Clark refers to “the rarest of experiences: spiritual ecstasy.” While spiritual ecstasy is indeed very rare — along with bilocation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santa Cruz has updated its Stigmata gravel bike, with a new, more progressive geometry borrowed from its mountain bike range. That means a slacker head tube with a 69.5-degree angle across the full S ...

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 ...