Pope Leo XIV presided over the canonization ceremony of the first saint of the millennium in the Catholic Church — a 15-year-old computer genius who used technology to spread the faith and earned the nickname “God’s Inspirer.”
Tens of thousands of people filled St. Peter’s Square to attend the open-air Mass celebrating Carlo Acutis’ canonization.
Leo, the first American Pope in history, made an unplanned appearance before the crowd at the start of the Mass, greeting “so many young people who have come to this Holy Mass.”
Acutis, canonized for his exemplary life and for using his computer skills to share his faith, became the first saint of the millennium in the Roman Catholic Church during Pope Leo’s first canonization ceremony.
