Padre Pio and Vatican II

Padre Pio lived from 1887 to 1968. This modern saint appears to many serious Catholics as if he were the last non-martyr saint. Why? Because he seems to be the last with apostolic miracles, apostolic faith and only the ancient sacraments at his belt—not to mention heaven’s own approbation with extremely rare gifts like the stigmata, bilocation, healing and even raising the dead. Padre Pio is in a different galaxy of holiness than say, Carlo Acutis. (I’m sure that boy was a nice kid, but if all it takes to get “canonized” is to run a Catholic website, then even losers like me are going to be shoe-ins for the honors of the altar one day. Heaven forbid such a low bar.)
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We move on to the topic of this article: Vatican II was a pastoral council that trudged-on from 1962 to 1965. Notice that “the Council” (as people suspiciously call it) overlapped with some of Padre Pio’s last difficult years on earth. Many modernists like to connect Vatican II to Padre Pio by …