British-born Italian teen Carlo Acutis is known as the “digital disciple” or “God’s influencer” because of the way he’s been able to spread the word of God through a form the younger generation ...

Carlo Acutis loved Christmas in every way: He loved to celebrate with his family and relatives. He loved the traditional Italian meals and exchange of presents. But his greatest love was the ...

Millions of young Catholics flock to the small central Italian town of Assisi every year to pay tribute to Carlo Acutis – the Italian teenager informally known as "God's Influencer." The 15-year-old ...

Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 after being diagnosed with leukemia, will one of the first people canonized by Pope Leo XIV Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...

They lived a century apart. One climbed Alpine peaks; the other coded websites. One served the poor of post-war Turin; the other evangelized from a laptop in Milan. But on Sept. 7, two young men from ...

Carlo Acutis, a teenage computer whiz from Milan, will be canonized Sunday, becoming the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. His story has inspired a new generation of believers and has led to a ...

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 face and hands are ...

The Vatican announced Friday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized together on ...

Before he was known as a soon-to-be-saint, Carlo Acutis was simply a boy in a school uniform, lugging his backpack through the hallways of the Tommaseo Institute in Milan. His teachers remember him as ...

ROME — 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 ...

OLYPHANT — As parishioners of St. Patrick’s Church gathered Sunday to celebrate the canonization of the parish’s patron St. Carlo Acutis, the story of the 15-year-old who succumbed to acute leukemia ...