The EWTN News portal reports on the recollections of doctors and a hospital chaplain regarding the final days of Carlo Acutis, a teenager who died in 2006 and was “canonized” on September 7, 2025, by the current usurper on the Chair of Peter, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article presents a hagiographic narrative emphasizing the boy’s devotion to the Novus Ordo “Eucharist,” his computer programming skills used to catalog “Eucharistic miracles” and Marian apparitions, and his serene reception of the post-conciliar “sacraments” before death. This account serves as a masterpiece of neo-church myth-making, canonizing a child of the conciliar revolution to legitimize the apostate sect’s digital evangelization strategy.
The Fabrication of a “Saint” by an Antipope
The central fact omitted by the EWTN report is the absolute nullity of the “canonization” itself. The ceremony was performed by “Pope” Leo XIV, the latest in the line of manifest heretics usurping the Holy See since the death of Pius XII in 1958. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church, “just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio dogmatically confirms that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect,” requiring no declaratory sentence. The “canonization” of Carlo Acutis is therefore a null act performed by a private individual lacking all jurisdiction, a theatrical production of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican to bolster its crumbling credibility.
The Invalidity of the “Sacraments” Received
The article dwells sentimentally on the administration of the “anointing of the sick and holy Communion” by “Father” Sandro Villa, a priest of the neo-church. It describes the boy’s “composure and devotion” in receiving these “sacraments.” However, the theological reality is devastating. The Novus Ordo “Mass” promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1969 represents a radical rupture with the Catholic theology of the propitiatory Sacrifice, replacing the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a Protestantized memorial meal. As Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci warned in their Critical Study, the new rite “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass.” Consequently, the “Communion” received by Acutis was not the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ under the species of bread, but mere bread — or worse, an idolatrous simulacrum. The “anointing” administered by a priest ordained in the invalid 1968 Pontificale Romanum (or by a bishop consecrated in the 1968 rite) carries no sacramental grace. The boy died outside the channels of grace instituted by Christ, comforted only by the religious sentimentality of the conciliar sect.
Eucharistic Miracles and the Fatima Deception
Acutis’s famous website cataloging “Eucharistic miracles” is cited as evidence of his sanctity. The article quotes his statement: “The more often we receive the Eucharist, the more we will become like Jesus.” This begs the question: which “Eucharist”? The neo-church’s invalid Novus Ordo service? Furthermore, the catalog of “Eucharistic miracles” promoted by the conciliar sect inevitably includes the Fatima deception. As the theological dossier on False Fatima Apparitions demonstrates, the Fatima message is “theologically contradictory to Catholic doctrine,” “a tool to divert attention from modernism,” and “a potential Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church.” The “Miracle of the Sun” is dismissed as “mass optical manipulation (natural phenomenon) and mass panic and autosuggestion.” By promoting Fatima alongside genuine pre-1958 Eucharistic miracles, the neo-church — and its digital apostle Acutis — validates a Masonic fabrication designed to obscure the modernist apostasy within the Church, exactly as St. Pius X warned against the “enemies within” in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu.
Linguistic Engineering: Sanitizing Apostasy
The article’s language reveals the naturalistic, anthropocentric spirituality of the neo-church. Phrases like “lived intensely for oneself, but also and above all for others,” “gentle eyes taught us a lot: life… must be lived intensely,” and “highway to heaven” reduce the supernatural life of grace to humanitarian ethics and emotional resonance. There is no mention of sanctifying grace, the state of grace, mortification, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ so eloquently defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” The “chaplain” Villa speaks of being “touched by Carlo’s composure” — a purely psychological observation. The doctors speak of “sweet eyes,” “courage,” “empathy.” This is secular humanism draped in religious vocabulary, the “cult of man” condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”) and by Pius XI’s condemnation of “laicism” which “denied the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations.”
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Digital Evangelization”
Acutis is presented as the patron of the internet, using “aptitude for computer programming” to spread “Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions.” This exemplifies the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” The neo-church adapts the Faith to the medium, confusing the instrumentum with the finis. The article notes his parents “had stopped attending Mass” until he “dragged his family members along” to the daily Novus Ordo service. This is not conversion; it is recruitment into the conciliar sect. The “weekly confession” in the new rite of penance — which replaced the judicial absolution of the Council of Trent with a “reconciliation” dialogue — is another invalidity. As Lamentabili (Prop. 47) condemns the Modernist error that the words “Receive the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive” do not refer to the Sacrament of Penance, the post-conciliar rite embodies this very error.
Symptomatic of the Abomination of Desolation
The “canonization” of a fifteen-year-old computer programmer who died in 2006 — fast-tracked by the neo-church’s streamlined “sainthood factory” — is a symptom of the democratization of holiness and the trivialization of the miraculous. True canonizations, as Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, follow the Church’s immutable laws and serve to “confirm the faithful against the snares of heretical errors.” This “canonization” serves the opposite end: it legitimizes the conciliar sect’s existence, offering a “saint” for the smartphone generation to anchor them in the Church of the New Advent. The preservation of his heart as a “relic” inscribed with “The Eucharist is my highway to heaven” is a grotesque parody of Catholic piety, reminiscent of the Jansenist rigorism criticized in the Fatima dossier regarding the seers’ mortifications — but here stripped of even ascetical pretense, reduced to a marketing slogan.
The Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Nowhere in the article — nor in the neo-church’s entire narrative of Acutis — is there a whisper of Christ’s Kingship over nations, laws, and public life. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely because “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” and “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” Acutis’s “highway to heaven” is a purely individualistic, privatized spirituality, perfectly compatible with the Masonic secular order condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus (Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — condemned error) and by Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus. The neo-church produces “saints” who threaten the City of Man not at all.
Conclusion: A Saint for the Synagogue of Satan
The EWTN article is not a report on a Catholic saint; it is a press release for the antichurch’s latest product. Carlo Acutis, a child formed entirely within the conciliar revolution, nourished on the invalid Novus Ordo, the false ecumenism of the “Eucharistic miracles” website (including Fatima), and the sentimental piety of the neo-church, is elevated by an antipope to serve as a digital icon of the Great Apostasy. His “canonization” is null; his “sacraments” were invalid; his spirituality is Modernist; his promoters are heretics. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The faithful who cling to the integral Tradition of the Church before 1958, served by bishops and priests retaining valid Orders and the true Mass, must reject this fabrication entirely. As St. Cyprian, cited by Bellarmine, teaches: “A heretic, because of heresy and independently of excommunication, is deprived of all jurisdiction and power.” The structures occupying the Vatican have no power to canonize, no power to sanctify, no power to save. They offer only a highway to hell paved with pixels and sentiment.
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St. Carlo Acutis’ doctors recall his last days in the hospital (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.10.2026