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 ...

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 ...

An Italian teenager who liked playing video games and making funny films of his pets became the Catholic Church’s first “millennial” saint on Sunday. Carlo Acutis, who was just 15 when he died from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful holding a picture of Blessed Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized Sunday, as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for an open-air jubiliar audience Saturday, ...