By Elise Ann Allen Vatican City, Sept 7, 2025: Pope Leo XIV on September 7 canonized two young men who arguably encapsulate different aspects of his own papacy, and who the Church hopes can speak broadly to a younger generation of Catholics eager for new role models. In a MassContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Jan 31, 2022: A 27-year-old woman, who died fighting cancer, is emerging as a possible saint from India, with people seeking her intercession for modern wayward youth. Ajna George, a member of the Jesus Youth movement and an assistant professor, died January 21 in Kochi,Continue Reading
Rome, July 1, 2020: A young Italian computer whiz, who died when he was 15 is one miracle away from becoming the first millennial saint. Carlo Acutis, who used the internet to spread the Roman Catholic message, and is said to have saved a young Brazilian boy from a terribleContinue Reading
Rome, June 13, 2020: Venerable Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager and computer programmer who died in 2006, will be beatified October 10 in Assisi, Italy. “The joy we have long awaited finally has a date,” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said in a statement June 13. The beatification will takeContinue Reading
Vatican, Jan 24: The body of Carlo Acutis, the teen computer geek who used his tech skills to catalogue all the Eucharistic miracles of the world has been found to be incorrupt. The vice-postulator of the canonization , Father Marcelo Tenorio shared the news on social media on Jan 23. HeContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis issued decrees advancing the sainthood causes of four candidates, including two young teenagers who heroically lived the Christian virtues. At a meeting July 5 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope signed a decree recognising the heroic virtues of AlexiaContinue Reading
Milan, Italy: On Thursday, November 24, 2016, Cardinal Angelo Scola closed the diocesesan phase in the canonization process for Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia. He was a well-loved teenager who devoted himself to prayer and daily Mass as well as computer programming, filmContinue Reading
