Carlo Acutis was a London-born Italian teenager who lived under spiritual deception throughout his short life.
On Sunday, September 7, 2025, he was declared a saint by Pope Leo XIV.
The only way to become a ‘saint’ in the Roman Catholic religion is to be proclaimed one by the pope. The pope examines a person’s deeds, and, if they match the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), he bestows sainthood upon him.
The only way to become a ‘saint’ in the Scriptures is to be saved by God’s grace through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8).
According to the apostle Paul, we receive the gift of faith through no efforts of our own. We receive it through our belief and confession that Christ died for our sins. The only work of God that is required of us is to believe in the One He has sent because Jesus has already done the work. The confession of the Gospel is of first importance because it is the key to eternal life.
After we receive the gift of faith, we are required to remain in the faith until we pass. It is at this point that we begin to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We can choose to use our faith, and to treasure it, or abandon it and become one with the world again.
Unfortunately, Roman Catholics skip part one and spend their lives trying to save themselves through their own efforts without having received the gift of faith.
This is where the tragic tale of Carlo Acutis begins.
According to Betsy Reed, Editor, US, Carlo, called ‘God’s influencer,’ died at the age of 15 from leukemia in 2006. He was a computer whiz who built multilingual websites to spread Catholic teaching.
Acutis is noted as having created a website documenting Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions. Only faithful Catholics experience these miracles because they are based on false doctrines that apparently result in hallucinations.
There is no such thing as ‘Transubstantiation’ or Marian apparitions.
Tens of thousands filled St. Peter’s Square to witness the canonization of this new Catholic ‘saint.’ The number of people who have been deluded by the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) is legion (pun intended).
According to the article by Ms. Reed, Pope Leo stated, “The greatest risk in life is to waste it outside of God’s plan,” Leo said in his homily, saying Acutis had made a “masterpiece” of his life by dedicating it to God. This new saint represents “an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards,” he said.
The tragedy of Carlo Acutis is that he squandered his short life by deceiving and being deceived.
A tapestry depicting an image of ‘Saint Carlo’ was hung on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica to celebrate his life. There were also all kinds of merchandise, including T-shirts and action figures, for people to purchase.
As if that were not silly enough, the body of ‘Saint Acutis’ was covered in a wax mold of his likeness and dressed in his blue tracksuit top, jeans, and trainers. It is on view behind a glass-paneled case in Santa Maria Maggiore church.
Macabre.
His heart is in a gold casket in the town’s San Rufino Cathedral, while pieces of tissue from his pericardium (membrane enclosing his heart) have toured the world leading up to his canonization.
Gross.
His mother, Antonia Salzano, has traveled the globe to speak to the faithful while bringing strands of her son’s hair as gifts.
How anyone in the world can call any of this idolatry remotely Christian is not saved. This is pure paganism on display.
‘Saint Carlo’ is also credited with two miracles that have been ‘verified’ by the Vatican.
- There was a medically inexplicable healing of a Brazilian boy, apparently in the name of Acutis, who had a congenital pancreatic malformation in 2013.
- A Costa Rican student, Valeria Valverde, recovered from a severe head injury in 2022 after her mother prayed to Acutis.
We need to consult our dictionaries for a more depressing word than ‘tragedy.’
His family was not particularly religious, but it was reported that the young Acutis would go to mass and do the rosary each day.
Among his good works was allegedly speaking to the beggars of Milan and bringing them food and blankets.
I think that’s how you get to heaven under RCC theology.
Acutis was a skilled coder and created a website for Catholic organizations, which earned him the name of “Cyber apostle.” Unfortunately, at the age of 15, he was diagnosed with acute Leukemia and died soon thereafter.
In true pagan fashion, a movement built up around him, and seriously ill people began praying to him for cures. These people were taught by the RCC that this form of prayer would be superior to praying to their Father in heaven.
It is stated in the article that “the speed at which Acutis had been canonized shows how keen the church is to attract more young people.”
Is it just me, or does this whole tale just keep getting creepier?
To their credit, some Catholics and others have expressed skepticism that one so young should be canonized. Some have even insinuated that significant financial support, provided by the Acutis family, may have accelerated the youth’s rise to sainthood.
I’m surprised that the Vatican has not canonized Simon the Sorcerer yet.
His best friend stated that he did not remember Acutis as being all that pious, and he didn’t even know that he was religious. His mother, who, according to rumor, may have accelerated the youth’s rise to sainthood through financial support, disputed his best friend.
This whole process reeks of corruption.
The Catholic Church has condemned the unauthorized sale of relics on eBay purportedly belonging to Acutis. Imagine that, a bunch of hucksters taking advantage of the naïve for profit. And the RCC wasn’t getting any of the action.
Monty Python could make a great skit out of this nonsense.
The Vatican may have looked the other way if the grifters sent some of their profits to the Vatican Bank.
The locks of hair of Acutis were being auctioned online for large sums of money, so the Vatican had to call on law enforcement to put a stop to that. There is currently an investigation into the sale of relics by Italian law enforcement.
This entire story is profane.
Here we have an alleged ‘saint’ who probably never believed, confessed, or shared the Gospel and never called sinners to repent. He was simply your average kid who was deceived by the Roman Catholic religion.
At worst, he was a propaganda tool to recruit young people into this thing that is called a church. His sainthood was rumored to have been possibly purchased by his family.
If these people think they can purchase the gifts of the Holy Spirit, they are eternally mistaken.
The only hope this child has is that there is an age of accountability and he is not held responsible by God for being deluded by this church. There is biblical evidence for an age of accountability, but it is impossible to create a doctrine for it out of the Scripture we have been given.
At worst, this child died too soon and is now in hell, awaiting the lake of fire.
However, if this is the case, he will not be alone. Those who precipitated this deception, and those who foolishly participated in it, will join him shortly.
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