CARLO ACUTIS A MILLENNIAL IN PARADISE
Author: Fr. Will Conquere
Copyright: 2021
In each generation, heroes of the Faith, whom the Church recognizes as saints, emerge. There are many characteristics that they have in common, but none thus far have used cell phones, played PlayStation video games, or searched for information on Google.
That is about to change.
A young “computer geek” named Carlo Acutis, who created a website cataloguing every reported Eucharistic miracle in the world and died of leukemia a year later at age fifteen, was beatified in November 2019, after a healing miracle in Brazil was attributed to his intercession. Since the beatification ceremony one year later, solemn crowds have been filing past the exposed relics of the blessed youth in Assisi's Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
Carlo is a sign of contradiction in the modern world who serves as a heroic model for today's young people—a teenager who programmed computers and enjoyed films and comics yet lived as an authentic and sincere disciple of Christ. In these pages, you'll discover how he embraced the Faith as a boy and developed the virtues necessary to live a Christ-centered life in a secular society, how he overcame the vices that plagued him, and how he gracefully dealt with heartaches he could not divulge even to his parents.
When he developed leukemia, he offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Catholic Church, saying: “I offer all the suffering I will have to undergo for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church.”
About the Author:
Fr. Will Conquer was born in France on May 30, 1989, the feast of St. Joan of Arc. The son of an American mother and a French-Canadian father, he was raised to appreciate different approaches to the spiritual life—his mother became a charismatic Catholic as an adult, and his father was very traditional in the practice of his faith. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Monaco, and was sent by the Parish Foreign Missions Society to Cambodia.
Book: 216 pages
Format: Paperback
Dimension (inches): 8.50 x 5.50
ISBN: 978-164413-484-9
Prod. Code: 3484-9
