This week on “Inside the Vatican,” America Vatican correspondents Gerard O’Connell and Colleen Dulle discuss the canonization of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati.
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Carlo Acutis and I: The (complicated) spiritual connection of a shared cancer journey
It is precisely because of our shared cancer journey that I fondly recall first hearing about Carlo Acutis, whose cause for canonization was opened on Oct. 17, 2012, shortly after I learned my own cancer was in remission.
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On the ground for the canonization of Saints Acutis and Frassati: Crowds, communion and Cheez-Its
It was only their first day on the job as canonized saints, but Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati were already fulfilling their roles of drawing people to Christ.
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Pope Leo XIV declares Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati saints in a celebration of youthful devotion
At the first canonization ceremony of his pontificate, Leo XIV described Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati as ”both in love with Jesus and ready to give everything for him.”
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Wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on Sunday
In recent years, Carlo Acutis has shot to near rock star-like fame among many young Catholics, generating a global following the likes of which the Catholic Church hasn’t seen in ages.
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Pope Leo talks about what St. Augustine has given him in new video message
“So much of who I am I owe to the spirit and the teachings of St. Augustine,” Pope Leo XIV told his Augustinian confreres and their benefactors who were celebrating the saint’s feast day in Philadelphia.
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From French aristocrat to Catholic hermit: St. Charles de Foucauld shows humility is the way to God
A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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Celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius in the shadow of war in Gaza
In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” What are the ways we can do this in a world that seems to have gone mad?
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St. John Henry Newman will be named doctor of the church by Pope Leo
On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to Catholicism after being an Anglican priest, will be named a Doctor of the Church.
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Christ the concept never saved anyone
A Homily for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein