Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died of leukemia in 2006, had never missed a daily Mass since he received his first Communion as a 7-year-old. He volunteered in Catholic soup kitchens and spent his free time caring for the homeless.

He also turned his passion for technology into a tool for faith — by creating a website, where he listed the Eucharistic miracles.

On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV will declare Acutis a saint — the first millennial ever to be canonized — in a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. His canonization reflects the Church’s effort to inspire young people at a time when many are drifting from religion. “He did not settle into comfortable inaction, but grasped the needs of his time because in the weakest he saw the face of Christ,” Pope Francis, who approved Acutis for canoni

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