Canonization

When Carlo was little, his mother wasn’t practicing her faith a lot. It was Carlo who wanted to be in the church every day, and she facilitated that for him.

In photos: Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 7 for the canonizations of Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis.

“Faith and charity,” St. John Paul said, “transformed him into a joyful, enthusiastic apostle of Christ, a passionate follower of his message and charity.”

The lives of Blesseds Acutis and Frassati “are not really a message for just teenagers or young adults. They are a message for every Catholic.”

Pier Giorgio Michelangelo Frassati, born April 6, 1901, in Italy, will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 7; he is being called a saint for our times.

The bishop of Colorado Springs would “study and discern”whether to open a sainthood cause for a teenager who was killed after he tackled the shooter during a school shooting

Isabel Gonzalez said she learned about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati several years ago. “Getting to know him, I found a friend.”

“We’re just instruments of God. He is the one who allows us to be tools for his will to be fulfilled,” the teen sculptor said.

Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.

Catholics in Normandy commemorated the 100th anniversary of St. Thérèse’s of Lisieux’s canonization with three days of solemn celebrations May 16-18.