More than 620,000 people have visited the tomb of St. Carlo Acutis in the first eight months of 2025, according to the Diocese of Assisi, Italy. The diocese reported a surge of more than 121,000 ...

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Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint, Carlo Acutis, in what is expected to be Leo's first saint-making ceremony as ...

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 ...

I grew up in a bilingual household. My Italian-born dad would routinely speak Italian, while my Bronx-born mom was able to seamlessly switch between fluent Italian and flawless English. I myself spoke ...

On the day of his canonization, locals packed into the church in Assisi to watch a livestream of the Mass. Crowds of people come to pray at Carlo Acutis’ tomb at the church of St. Mary Major in Assisi ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Carlos Acutis, a Catholic teenager from Italy who died in 2006 of leukemia at 15, was ...