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.

1. There was a medically inexplicable healing of a Brazilian boy, apparently in the name of Acutis, who had a congenital pancreatic malformation in 2013.
2. 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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The world has gone mad without God. Many young people are lost these days. They are hooked on violent video games, porn, and drugs. Some have even lost all hope and have committed suicide. Today, they need Christ more than ever.

Let me tell you about Josh. I stopped at a Race Track gas station for gasoline and a cup of good cappuccino coffee. Upon entering, I turned left in search of my coffee, and there at a long table in front of the big plate glass windows sat a young man charging his severely screen-cracked cell phone – which was given to him – at an electrical outlet. The young man looked to be in his late teens. He looked up at me with puppy dog eyes, and I asked if he had eaten breakfast. “I don’t have no money” he replied with a forlorn look on his face.

“Here’s a ten spot; get yourself something to eat,” I said as I handed him the bill. He jumped at it with a huge smile and got up, and gave me a big hug.

“Thank you, sir; thank you very much!”

I went to get my coffee and sat at a little table in the middle of the station to enjoy it. The young man came over and sat with me with who knows what. Holding out his hand, he said, “My name is Josh.” Just then, the gas station manager came over and told Josh sternly not to be begging the customers for food. “He didn’t ask me for anything,” I replied. I’m a Bible-believing Christian, and we are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves. Are you a Christian?” I implored.

Flustered, the manager backpedaled and said, “I yam nodding.”

I said, “Here, take my card and learn how to be saved,” and become a follower of Jesus Christ. And I’m just doing what every Christian should do, loving my neighbor as myself.

He took my card and exclaimed, “Jou arre a goot man; tanks.” Glancing at it, he shuffled away.

And so, that was my introduction to 19-year-old Josh. Josh was lean with short blond hair. (He is almost skinny from not eating regular meals.) He had been living on the streets in Naples for two months and was now sleeping behind the gas station on the ground beneath a small 10-foot tree with few branches and leaves that barely offered any cover.

I felt pity for the kid from Michigan and felt determined to help him in any way I could, especially after I learned that his father had died from a drug overdose when he was still a young kid. His mother, by then, was smoking pot each day and had a new lover every weekend. Her last lover would beat Josh and lock him in his bedroom for days at a time while he and his mother did their “thing.” His grandparents took him in for a while and began taking him to church, where he received Christ and got baptized not three months before we met.

Not having any kind of guidance in his early formative years, he became a recluse and spent many hours on a laptop playing video games and learning how to make videos himself. A highly gifted child, he also learned to play guitar and piano while visiting his grandparents when they babysat him while his mother went barhopping. They even bought him a Fender guitar and had a piano in the house for him to play on, and so he taught himself to play by ear. Despite his handicaps, Josh is very intelligent and quick to learn.

The Department of Children and Families said he could be on his own only after he was 18 years old. So, he hit the road with only the clothes on his back – hitchhiking to Florida. He was wearing the same raggedy clothes when we met. A bicycle and a broken cell phone were given to him by a young man his age that he met at a local church, yet no other adult would touch him with a ten-foot pole. He kept himself clean by using public facilities wherever he found them.

Now, for my side of the story.

I had been praying for someone to help me make a movie based on my first book, Miracles, Signs and Wonders, but since I couldn’t find a producer, I had decided to make a “preview/ trailer” made up of a montage of scenes instead – to shop the project around with. The problem was that I had forgotten how to do video editing, and now, with time running out, I would shoot the short scenes myself and was praying for a professional editor to help me out. Then, lo and behold, I met Josh (the homeless whiz kid). and we began yesterday to shoot the very first scene – music and all with his expertise. God had answered my prayer – yet again.

Because of this incredible blessing, I woke up inspired to begin putting retired professionals together with young men to mentor them, thereby salvaging young men’s lives and enhancing our own – to say nothing of pleasing God.

With nothing better to do than play golf and go to church, such retired professionals could contribute to young men’s lives by mentoring them with life skills and making them contributors to our communities, plus the kingdom of God. The requirement for such mentors is that they be “Born Again” Christians familiar with scripture.

If America is going to continue to exist until the rapture, then this may be a way for you to contribute to the kingdom of God. Yes, you too can be a mentor to such a young man like me and be a much-needed “Mentor for Christ” by contacting me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com for more information.

YBIC

Jim Towers

You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com. You can also find me on my newly restructured website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com, which now features the Gospel and videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places, and Moses himself.