Two new saints celebrated by Baltimore Catholics September 8, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints Baltimore Catholics joined the worldwide Catholic community in honoring two young saints this weekend as Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer whiz who died in 2006, and Pier Giorgio Frassati, a 24-year-old rock climber who died in 1925, were canonized Sept. 7 by Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square.
At canonization Mass, two mothers stand out as giants of confidence in God September 8, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News At a packed canonization Mass in Rome, with 80,000 attending, it was the face of the mother that said it all during the canonization Mass — Antonia Salzano was moved beyond words when her son, Carlo Acutis, was officially declared saint of the Catholic Church.
Buried in Assisi, new saint is ‘true disciple’ of St. Francis, rector says September 4, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis is a fresh “shoot” budding from the 800-year-old spiritual “vine” of Sts. Francis and Clare in Assisi, said the rector of the shrine housing the millennial teenager’s tomb.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati shows how to ‘be holy in the normalcy of our lives’ August 31, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Pope Leo XIV plans to canonize Turin native Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati , who died in 1925, alongside fellow Italian Blessed Carlo Acutis Sept. 7.
Pope signs decrees advancing several sainthood causes May 23, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News In addition to clearing the way for the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, Pope Francis signed decrees in seven other sainthood causes, including that of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missionaries, who also is now ready to be declared a saint.
Pope recognizes miracle needed for church’s first ‘millennial’ saint May 23, 2024By Carol Glatz OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first “millennial” to become a saint.
In revering Eucharist, young Hickory parishioners follow example of fallen Italian October 25, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Saints In the midst of peers who might be non-religious, these “normal” kids, just like Blessed Carlo Acutis, became disciples of Christ not just at church and the streets, but on the web.
Beatified teen showed that heaven is ‘attainable goal,’ cardinal says October 11, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi.
Tomb of young Italian tech whiz opened for veneration October 1, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The tomb of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who used his computer programming skills to spread devotion to the Eucharist, was opened for veneration before his beatification in Assisi.
Pope recognizes miracle in sainthood cause of young tech whiz February 25, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today.
Pope Leo to youth: Jesus doesn’t want you to be couch potatoes July 28, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV urged young people not to be “couch potatoes” in a video message on July 25, adding that the Church needs their missionary energy and “holy rebelliousness.
AI cannot replace humanity, conscience, truth, Irish archbishop says May 19, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: AI, Feature, News, World News Advancements in artificial intelligence can provide surface-level solutions, but in the age of manipulated images and manufactured creativity, it can never replace human beings created in the image and likeness of God, said Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh.
