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...issue emerges as as tearful pilgrims and television crews flocked this week to the friar-saint's final resting place, San Giovanni Rotondo, a kind of Las Vegas-meets-Bethlehem hilltop pilgrimage destination. They were there to see the exhumed corpse of Padre Pio, which had been put on display in a glass casket, with a special silicon mask - beard, bushy eyebrows and all - created by London-based wax museum artisans. Everyone knows what John Paul II felt about Padre Pio. But how can Benedict, the intellectually rigorous theologian, dubbed "the Pope of Reason," sanction such widespread belief in faith...
Some may even note a snub of sorts. John Paul visited San Giovanni Rotondo in 1987 to mark 100 years since Padre Pio's birth. But Benedict is making his second papal visit to the Puglia region in June, and has left the town off his itinerary both times...
...Capuchin friar known as PADRE PIO. The cleric, who died in 1968, is a favorite of the Pontiff's and a cultlike figure to many other Catholics. Last year 7 million pilgrims--more than went to Lourdes--trekked to the remote hillside village of Italy's San Giovanni Rotondo, where he's buried; the village bustles with the construction of hotels and a church that will seat...
COUNCILLOR:Sixth District (6/2, 6/3, 7/2, 8/2, 8/3, 8/4): Michael J. Callahan (D), Suzanne Merullo (D), Edward T. Donohoe (D), Daniel P. O'Neil (D), Francis X. Flaherty (D), Mark Rotondo (D), Vicent A. LoPresti (D), Jeffrey Travaline (D), Terry McGinty (D), Patricia White...
...French but it's live," said Eryk Rotondo, a Grille regular...