Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish will hold its annual Family Festival at St. Anthony of Padua Church and hall at 215 Rebecca St., Throop, on Saturday and Sunday. The parish formed on July 1 when Blessed ...

A Chicago parish named for Blessed Carlo Acutis is hosting multiple events related to the first millennial to become a saint ahead of his canonization Sunday, Sept. 7. As part of "Carlo Fest," the ...

EWTN News correspondent Colm Flynn will host a one-hour special from the rooftop of EWTN’s Rome studio, which overlooks St. Peter’s Square. Pilgrims gather in St. Peter’s Square for a Mass and ...

CHICAGO (AP) — At a Catholic school in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown, fifth graders read comic books about Carlo Acutis’ life titled “Digital Disciple.” They draw pictures of what the teenage Italian ...

An Italian teen — Carlo Acutis, who was 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006 — is poised to become the first millennial saint. The new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV (the American previously known as Cardinal ...

Thousands of young people are heading to the Eternal City next week for the Jubilee of Youth, where they will have the opportunity to pray with the incorrupt body of Pier Giorgio Frassati and a ...

The Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish Family Festival youth event held Aug. 2 in Throop was a success, with nearly 50 participants. Boys and girls ages 15 and under demonstrated their soccer, basketball and ...

Pope Leo will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis on Sept. 7 − the first such ceremony of his tenure and the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation – elevating him to the same level as Mother ...

The Vatican announced last week that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized a saint on Sept. 7, alongside another young Italian, Blessed Carlo Acutis. Frassati had previously been set to be ...

As Pope Leo XIV prepares to proclaim Blessed Carlo Acutis a saint in Rome on Sept. 7, thousands of miles away at the foot of Michiru Mountain in Malawi, students at a Catholic high school bearing his ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced. Meeting with cardinals living in and visiting Rome for an ...

Archbishop José H. Gomez will bless a local group of 52 “faithful” Roman Catholics on Sunday at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels before they and Auxiliary Bishop Matthew G. Elshoff and several ...