Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint, Carlo Acutis, in what is expected to be Leo's first saint-making ceremony as ...

One afternoon in the spring of 2022, Keith Henderson met his former priest for lunch when a timely topic arose during their ...

A nun holds a picture of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on the day Pope Leo XIV leads the canonization Mass of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first ...

Anyone who needed it, he made sure they got it, and didn’t take a dime from them, being the great doctor, he was. That was about a century ago. On Sunday, he was canonized as the first Venezuelan ...

On Thursday, May 8, 2025, Catholics everywhere stopped in their tracks as plumes of white smoke emanated from the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which had been closed for some time in preparation for the ...

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A church in Lackawanna County celebrated the canonization of the first millennial saint Sunday. That church is now among only one other in the country to be ...

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 computer whiz might ...

Many U.S. pilgrims had planned travel around the original Aug. 3 date, only to learn they will now miss the canonization entirely. Marian procession at Frassati Catholic High School in Spring, Texas.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis. Leo made the announcement during a meeting of ...