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Carlos Acutis, a Catholic teenager from Italy who died in 2006 of leukemia at 15, was canonized Sunday. IPA IPAIPA/Sipa USA In the Catholic faith, there are thousands of saints, but for me — and I ...

If you look up St. Carlo Acutis in Britannica, he is described by the encyclopedic source as an "English-born Italian computer programmer." True enough. But how did Acutis go from being a 15-year-old ...

Carlo Acutis' modern day miracle spotlighted in story of first millennial saint The final installment of Martin Scorsese's 'The Saints' season two showcases the life and canonization of the Catholic ...

On September 7, Carlo Acutis will be canonized as the first millennial saint in a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used ...

ASSISI, Italy — In the silence of St. Mary Major Church in this central Italian hill town, a tour group of Polish teenagers files past a glass-sided tomb to look in on a child of their own age. His ...

Erin Kirk loves using her smartphone. As a 21-year-old recent graduate of Duquesne University, Kirk works as a religion teacher at Padua Academy in Wilmington, Delaware. “I am on my smartphone a lot,” ...

A teenager known as "God's influencer" who loved videogames and spread the gospel online has been canonised as a saint. Carlos Acutis died in 2006 at 15 years of age from leukaemia, but dedicated his ...