On September 7, Pope Leo XIV canonised the now Sts Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. Photo: OSV News / courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo
Acutis and CNS fi les. It would not be atypical in contemporary parlance to describe a significant friend or other person we know as a ‘living saint.’ But what do we mean when calling one a ‘saint’ and how that person is so recognised by the Church? Catholicism’s 2,000-year history has seen the process for the proclamation of saints develop…
