EXCLUSIVE: Pope Leo XIV Names Teenage Influencer As First Millennial Saint

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday declared Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer wizard, also known as “God’s Influencer,” as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint…. Read ..Full.. Article.. .

The canonisation, celebrated before tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square, marked a milestone for the church as it embraced a figure who used technology to spread the faith and inspire a digital generation.

The open-air Mass was the first saint-making ceremony of Pope Leo’s pontificate.

Alongside Acutis, he canonised Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian layman who died in 1925 and is remembered for his devotion to the poor.

In his homily, the Pope praised both young men for creating “masterpieces” of life through their devotion to God.

“The greatest risk in life is to waste it outside of God’s plan. These saints remind us, especially the young, to lift our lives upward and make them extraordinary,” the Pope said.

Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991 and raised in Milan, where he developed both a passion for computer science and an intense devotion to the Eucharist, and..  Read . .More —