You should consider the source.
Catholic World News is a borderline schismatic publication, as is The Remnant. Notice how it has to get in the dig at the end that the monastery is now Novus Ordo, and that this is almost blasphemous to Padre Pio.
Witnesses were evidently told to remain silent as it appears the monks now occupying Padre Pio's monastery did not want this news to be known. If true, one wonders why.
If this is true, why does Catholic World News know it?
This story is a total fabrication.