This young teenager has been declared a saint of the Church! He's not far from us, but is a saint of our time.
On September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV canonized two exemplary witnesses of the Christian faith: computer programmer Carlo Acutis and student and mountain climber Pier Giorgio Frassati.
We join the Holy Father in praying that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons.
Carlo Acutis’s life bears witness to a path of clarity, a “Highway” to heaven, strewn with faith, prayer, and trust. All his life, Carlo Acutis traced this path, which led him to encounter Christ daily in the Eucharist and in the faces of the poor.
In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflected on Jesus' cry of thirst on the cross, saying that it is "not only the physiological need of a tortured body. It is also, and above all, the expression of a profound desire: that of love, of relationship, of communion."