Posted on 09/04/2025 2:29:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Body of Carlo Acutis, to be canonized Sunday, on display in jeans and sneakers
ROME — Carlo Acutis wore sneakers and jeans, relaxed with his PlayStation, craved Nutella, and loved soccer. On Sunday, the Italian teenager will become the Catholic Church’s first saint from the internet generation.
Carlo, a self-taught computer whiz whose devotion to his faith was unusual for his age, died of leukemia in 2006 at just 15.
To friends and classmates, he was a well-liked fan of the AC Milan soccer team who would sometimes vanish for hours at a time to write computer code.
To fellow parishioners of Milan’s Santa Maria Segreta — St. Mary the Hidden — he was a boy who never missed a daily Mass, prayed the rosary, and who spoke about heaven as if he had firsthand knowledge.
“In most ways, Carlo was a regular child who didn’t stand out,” his mother, Antonia Salzano, told The Washington Times from Milan. “He liked school and had many friends. But he was also very dedicated to helping people find their faith. That was what made him so special.”
At his request, Carlo was buried in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, the Italian city is best known as the birthplace of St. Francis, the 13th-century founder of the Franciscan order and a saint whom Carlo admired (as well as the namesake of the previous pope, who got the ball rolling on the boy’s canonization).
After Carlo’s death, his story spread. A website he designed to catalog Eucharistic miracles and multiple languages began to draw worldwide attention.
Italian media called him “God’s Influencer,” a nickname that, the Catholic Church says, turned out to be more literal than thought. Becoming a Catholic saint requires at least...
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Will people pray to him to fix computer bugs or to put up working websites?
Another example of the kind of inanity that has reduced the Catholic Church to an embarrassing joke!
*nix or Windows?
MS-DOS 🤡
I was in Italy a few weeks ago, and all over the country there are many photos of this young man as well as many trinkets for sale with his image. I’m as big of a critic of post-conciliar liberal Catholicism as anyone, so I started much like you from a position of reflexive skepticism toward the Carlo Acutis phenomenon. But then I started reading more about him, and I discovered the story of an unusually pious young man who tragically died young. His website about Eucharistic miracles has undoubtedly pointed many people to Christ. Several documented, inexplicable medical miracles have been attributed to prayers for the intervention of this boy in heaven. What’s the definition of a saint? A human soul who’s now with God. From my review of the available information, I’m satisfied and have no quarrel with this canonization.
So bringing Eucharistic
Miracles you don’t believe
but can’t explain away to millions of people around the world somehow doesn’t warrant sainthood to you. That’s just the kind of comment that Satan would make.
So bringing Eucharistic
Miracles you don’t believe . . .
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All complete nonsense!
That’s just the kind of comment that Satan would make.
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WRONG! Here’s an example of Satan in action at the Vatican:
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