Carlo Acutis Carlo London-born Italian teenager died from leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15. He is set to be canonized as a saint in 2025 “the patron saint of the internet”.
“Roadmap to Reality: Carlo Acutis and Our Digital Age” is a new documentary film exploring the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis and the lessons he offers young people regarding the challenges of the digital world that will be coming to theaters in the spring of 2025. / Credit: Castletown Media
‘Online to get people offline’: Experts show how Carlo Acutis modeled faithful use of tech
“[Acutis was] online to get people offline,”
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Trailer for film: https://carloacutisfilm.com/
Carlo Acutis: Italian teenager could be first millennial saint
‘The teenager had a passion for computers and reportedly taught himself to code at a young age.
“He was considered a computer genius,” Ms Salzano said in an interview with Vatican News. “But what did he do? He didn’t use [computers] to chat or have fun.”
Instead, Acutis took care of websites for local Catholic organisations and also created some of his own.
But he was said to be conscious of the dangers of technology, something referenced by Pope Francis when he spoke about the teenager last year.
“[Acutis] saw that many young people, wanting to be different, really end up being like everyone else, running after whatever the powerful set before them with the mechanisms of consumerism and distraction,” the Pope said.’………..
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