On Sunday, St. Peter’s Square was filled with singing and prayers in many languages accompanying the first canonizations of ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed Italians Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati saints before a crowd of thousands in St. Peter’s ...

COMMENTARY: In raising Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati to the altars, the Holy Father reversed a decade of smaller ...

A flag featuring the image of Carlo Acutis is waved during the canonization Mass of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in ...

A student venerates a relic of St. Carlos Acutis held by Father Conrad Murphy, the chaplain of the Catholic Student Center at the University of Maryland at College Park, on Sept. 7, 2025. The Catholic ...

The Catholic Church has its first millennial saint. At a packed canonization Mass in Rome, with 80,000 attending, it was the face of the mother that said it all during the canonization Mass -- Antonia ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking to follow God’s plan, Pope Leo XIV said, ...

Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on Sunday, giving the next ...

St. Peter’s Square was packed on Sunday, September 7, as Pope Leo XIV declared Carlo Acutis a saint, making the 15-year-old the first millennial to be canonized by the Catholic Church. According to ...

Pope Leo XIV Sunday elevated to sainthood two young Italians who died eight decades apart, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio ...

The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking to follow God's plan, Pope Leo XIV said, proclaiming two new saints — two young laymen of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Leo canonized Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, during an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 80,000 people ...