Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish will hold its annual Family Festival at St. Anthony of Padua Church and hall at 215 Rebecca St., Throop, on Saturday and Sunday. The parish formed on July 1 when Blessed ...

THROOP, Pa. — The new Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish held a family festival Saturday afternoon in Lackawanna County. It's the parish's first festival at the new parish since both churches in Throop and ...

The Vatican announced Friday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized together on ...

The Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish Family Festival youth event held Aug. 2 in Throop was a success, with nearly 50 participants. Boys and girls ages 15 and under demonstrated their soccer, basketball and ...

The production engaged children in every aspect — from acting and set changes to managing props. And the impact went far beyond the performance. The play, “Highway to Heaven,” was performed Oct. 12, ...

A Chicago parish named for Blessed Carlo Acutis is hosting multiple events related to the first millennial to become a saint ahead of his canonization Sunday, Sept. 7. As part of "Carlo Fest," the ...

Back in 2009, Italian Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, bishop of Assisi, saw that the pastor of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore had put up a picture of Carlo Acutis, a late devout Catholic and ...

The Holy Cross and Blessed Sacrament parishes in Olyphant and Throop consolidated into one Tuesday, taking on a new identity and becoming one of the first Roman Catholic churches worldwide to name ...

Images of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati appear beside and on his tomb at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin, Italy, in this file photo from February 2006. (CNS file photo/Carol Glatz) VATICAN ...

As part of the Catholic Church’s celebration of its newest saints — including the first millennial saint — Inland Empire Catholics are marking the occasion with prayerful events and activities.