Blessed Carlo Acutis

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u/Frankonnen 1d ago

He's a Saint tho, Thanks to God.

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/Busy_Industry_4214 1d ago

funny how being declared a saint by an institution gets treated as proof that god did it

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u/Frankonnen 1d ago

It's funny for you since you don't believe in the Holy Spirit as God being the inspirator of this decision by the evidence of actual miracles connected with that said Person.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits 1d ago

Busy_Industry_4214 wrote:

funny how being declared a saint by an institution gets treated as proof that god did it

First, the Church does not declare anyone a saint. The Church recognises sainthood. Adherance to God's Holy Word made him a saint. The Church simply made note of it. How Does the Church Recognize Saints?. From the Archdiocese of Boston:

It is important to note that canonization does not "make" a person a saint; it only recognizes what God has already done.

Second, which part do you find most funny?

The part where, as a child, knowing he was dying, he dedicated his remaining life to Jesus, specifically through helping others?

Is it the part where he was in agony, but was still happy?

Maybe the part where he donated his time, money and talents to help the homeless, the elderly, and the hungry? His time was limited, but he voluntarily spent much of that time in a soup kitchen, visiting the poor and elderly, or in church instead of out having fun while he could.

Most people would have encouraged him to enjoy the time he had left, which would have been good advice, but he chose a harder path.

When a child selflessly lives a life of sacrifice, love, charity, and humility for the sake of others, something most of us can never understand, what do you call them, if not a saint?

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u/koichi_hirose4 1d ago

Bot account

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u/Swimming_Ad6648 1d ago

Can you appoint a reason why Saint Carlo Acutis is not a saint? if not, begone satan

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u/wesorre 1d ago

St. Carlo Acutis*

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/Affectionate-Way6102 1d ago

Saint Carlo Acutis*

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/miscstarsong 1d ago

You need an updated picture caption — Saint not Blessed.

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/AlbanianCatholic 17h ago

The title Blessed belongs to those who have been beatified but not yet canonized.
Since St. Carlo Acutis has been canonized, using the title Blessed is outdated for him, the correct title if Saint.
Blessings! Merely saying this to clarify correct Catholic terminology.

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u/InnocentMan95 1d ago

SAINT!!!
Pray for me St Acutis!

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/InnocentMan95 1d ago

All good!!!! Happy he was mentioned!!
You bringing his name up triggered many positive comments!! Even better it triggered many to look up his name.. hopefully u enlightened an unbeliever to come home!!🙏

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u/sirjohnmasters86 1d ago

St Carlo Acutis pray for us

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u/Artistic-Bowl4799 1d ago

Please pray for us Saint carlos Acutis.

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u/Top-Ad-2634 1d ago

Seeing some push back against him makes me think the enemy is trying hard to subvert the thoughts of people of what is to be celebrated

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u/EveningSky3731 1d ago

Or maybe it's ok to have differing opinions without necessarily being a minion of Satan for having those differing opinions?

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u/milenyo 20h ago

Differing opinion? Much like how some atheist have an "opinion" that mother Teresa is evil?

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u/Ghalldachd 18h ago

Nobody said he was evil. A lot of people are just suspicious at the relative laxity of canonisations nowadays and how the low standards are. If his mother is telling the truth then yes, Carlo Acutis was a very pious young boy. But he joins millions of others who haven't been canonised. It's just a bit obvious that he has received so much attention because his family are very wealthy.

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u/milenyo 17h ago

To get things off the ground and get his cause running maybe. How many miracles would suffice?

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u/simpkn0t 16h ago

I don't think it's okay when it's about sainthood idk...

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u/Top-Ad-2634 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m not calling anyone a minion of satan I’m just saying my different opinion is that the enemy works hard to try and turn around celebrations related to the glory of God…I’m just noticing people seem to have a personal dislike towards him because his parents were rich and campaigned for him, which I understand, but God has allowed his canonization for a reason either way and whether or not you’re impressed with him he’s an inspiration for many young Catholics to keep the faith especially how similar he was the fruits are undeniable, once again my opinion

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u/Caffetoandino 1d ago

Call me fussy, but it bothers me that we have abandoned religious art and now use photographs for contemporary saints.

Was it really so difficult to commission an artist to depict Carlo—in the style of the saints found on holy cards, much like a Saint Francis of Assisi?

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u/Level_Doctor3872 1d ago

I totally disagree. I’m a teacher, and I love showing kids photographs of saints. I grew up thinking that saints were just people from the Bible, so now I go out of my way to make sure that my students know these were real people who really lived in the world that THEY are living in. We are called to holiness in a world with the same challenges they faced! I think having actual photos makes it a little easier to understand that sainthood is a universal call

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u/Top-Ad-2634 1d ago

I’ve seen nice statues of him from the Philippines

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u/tubby_chumpkins 1d ago

Orthodoxy still does this.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits 1d ago

I need to go visit an Orthodox Church, then. Not to join, but to see. Thank you.

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u/Caffetoandino 1d ago

And I'm really envious.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits 1d ago

I'm calling you fussy, per your request. 🙃 There are plenty of old style art pieces of Saint Carlos. Here are three.

Here's a new style image I find meaningful. It's a clever take on the Legend Of Zelda game. It uses a line from the actual game (second image), when your character gets a sword to begin his quest. Saint Carlos was a gamer and loved computers. I hope he likes this.

As for traditional art: I wish we could bring back Dooms. Dooms were instructive paintings on the wages of sin, often the Last Judgement, complete with demons graphically and violently torturing humans.

They were on the walls of Catholic churches. Imagine looking up at a Doom during Mass. Many were in England, and as a result, were painted over during the Reformation. Trying to destroy them saved them, and they're being uncovered as churches are restored. Dooms were common from the early days of the Church onward, peaking around the 13th Century. Here's the Wikipedia link. You can click on the images to see them up close.

Here is my favourite, at the Church of St Thomas a Becket, Salisbury.

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u/simpkn0t 16h ago

Its the opposite for me! Having pictures reminds us that they were real people like you and me.

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u/milenyo 20h ago

Maybe youre just not trying to check at all.

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u/philliplennon 18h ago

St. Carlo Acutis, pray for us!!

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u/Ok-Editor1747 15h ago

Saint Carlo Acutis please look after my son

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u/astarisaslave 1d ago

"Blessed"? He is already a saint...

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u/Cultural_Wafer_4853 1d ago

Yes I corrected the description but unfortunately I can't edit the title and image. Sorry for the confusion. He was indeed canonised in September 2025.

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u/Someguywhoisbored2 1d ago

The saint born on my birthday, pray for us Saint Carlo Acutis

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u/Someguywhoisbored2 1d ago

Meant to say he died on my birthday

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u/inXrepose 23h ago

Haven’t his classmates said that he wasn’t actually very religious at all? Many of them didn’t even know this about him, and that narrative mostly came from his mother after his death?

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u/milenyo 20h ago

Source?

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u/thatguysimon01 22h ago

Showing up to church doesn’t make you spiritual. People decided to make this kid a saint after discovering his corpse didn’t rot.

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u/milenyo 20h ago

Tell me you don't know about Carlo without telling me you don't know Carlo.

He is not an incorrupt body though. And the reason for his sainthood is far different. Maybe check before making totally wrong assumptions.

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u/ChuChuMan202 1d ago

Personally, I feel this young man's holiness is overblown. Reading about him, I'm positive he was very spiritual, but my conscience tells me he is not quite worth veneration.

Compare him with someone like Fulton Sheen. It feels like the Church was desperate for a millennial saint.

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 1d ago

Historically before the canonisation process was changed, usually a individual was declared a saint only after a large and visible cultus had emerged over decades or centuries.

Fulton Sheen as you say has a clear cultus for many years.

A pope such as Paul VI, I struggle to believe that there was one.

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u/Caffetoandino 1d ago

True.

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 1d ago edited 1d ago

I remain bitter that one of the great Marian popes, Leo XIII, hasn't even been declared a Servant of God.

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u/milenyo 20h ago

Bitterness is unbecoming of a man of God though.

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 18h ago

Luckily we're not all perfect.

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u/milenyo 17h ago

But we should strive to be. We're all called to repentance afterall

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u/wattench 1d ago

Not how it works

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u/ChuChuMan202 1d ago

He's officially a saint. I'm just personally not moved.

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u/parttimegamer93 1d ago

Padre Pio is that guy for me.

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u/chockfulloffeels 1d ago

Why?

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u/parttimegamer93 19h ago

The Church found him untrustworthy throughout nearly his entire life. Investigations of his stigmata were inconsistent. At points the distrust was sufficient that the Church considered dispersing the monastery. I am generally of the opinion that only the popular outcry of the layfolk raised him in stature.

That said, I do not question the final decision of the Church.

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u/chockfulloffeels 17h ago

Thanks!

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u/Caffetoandino 16h ago

However, at least he possesses truly organic popularity.

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u/wattench 1d ago

There is a process, though. He's not for everyone. Not every saint is for everyone, although of course they're there for everyone if they are asked to intercede.

For me Carlos was taken away in order to be a Saint.

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u/RhysPeanutButterCups 16h ago

It bothers me only because it's really flattened St. Acutis as a human being. I trust the Church in its decision to recognize his sainthood, but I think he's a lot more inspiring and offers greater hope to us regular folk if it is indeed true that he is much closer to a regular person than what's been suggested by his family. It's much more of a cause for celebration in my opinion. If God has welcomed him into Heaven and will allow for miracles to occur by the intercession of, frankly, a normal person and that person's sainthood is recognized by the Church, that's great news for all of us and our own journeys toward God.

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u/ChuChuMan202 16h ago

Sorry. His sainthood is nonsense. It was a grave mistake by the Church.

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u/simpkn0t 15h ago

I bet you know more than the Church, lol.

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u/ChuChuMan202 15h ago

Is this Church beyond error?

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u/Lothric-_ 11h ago

totalmente deacuerdo , nunca estare conforme con la iglesia de crear santos porque se les da la gana solo para alcanzar mas gente o como una estrategia politicia,social, economica , mediatica etc etc

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u/miscstarsong 1d ago

I know you will get a ton of down votes, but I kinda agree. Same feeling about a few other saints too.

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u/ChuChuMan202 1d ago

Thank you. It feels so forced.

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u/EveningSky3731 1d ago

I also seriously dislike how the wealth and social power of his parents played such a part in him being pushed to canonization.

If he was the son of a poor family and not a millionaire, would he have been pushed to Sainthood so fast? Or at all?

Is it a natural cultus or is it the lobbying of a wealthy mother?

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u/Caffetoandino 1d ago

Well, that is how it was historically. Compare Saint Louis with his cousin Saint Ferdinand.

And consider the number of saints from Europe versus those from Latin America. Before the 20th century, even dying in Latin America delayed canonization—as was the case with Saint Peter Claver and Saint Martin de Porres.

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u/EveningSky3731 1d ago

Sure. But that doesn't make it right and it's ok for it to put a bad taste in my mouth seeing it happen in front of me in the modern day.

I don't deny the kid is in Heaven. The Church has spoken on that. I just don't think he shouldn't been rushed to Sainthood like he was and I think he's a bit overblown.

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u/Caffetoandino 1d ago

Unfortunately, this sub isn't ready for that conversation.

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u/kaeganc 1d ago

Correct on all counts

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u/formerlyabird3 5h ago

This popped up on my for you page and I wanted to share that I went to Adoration for the first time ever today, and it was reading about and then watching St Carlo Acutis’s beatification mass in 2020 that first made me curious about returning to the Catholic church (baptized as a baby, all my extended family is Catholic so we went to Mass sometimes, but my parents didn’t raise me Catholic). I had no idea it was his feast day today, but it feels really special that today is the day the Lord chose to lead me to Adoration!

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