Carlo Acutis, the unlikely first millennial saint, inspires a new generation of Catholics
People pray in front of the body of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and was beatified in 2020, at the Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Assisi, Italy, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
(RNS) — The Italian teenager, whose classmates barely knew he was religious, will be made a saint in September.
