COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT…CHILD SAINTS

Humanity versus Holiness

As promised, I’m taking a test drive on a possible new occasional feature for the Wow called “Complicated Feelings,” in which I wrestle with something going on.

Last week, the Catholic church announced that it had approved the canonization of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 and stuck up for outsiders, cleaned up litter, and thought an unusual amount about Jesus and the saints. He’ll be the church’s first millennial saint.