I was quite shocked to hear that Carlo Acutis seemingly 'approved'? of the movie Eurotrip. That movie disturbed me heavily when i read about first, (i came across it a couple years ago trough coincidence and sadly looked it up) it and is certainly NOT a movie a Catholic saint would watch. I do not dare to talk about what happens near the end of the film (and it would certainly scandalize people) but it's horrid and sacreligious against the Catholic faith, a total offense against God.
I don't doubt that Carlo Acutis was a quite pious boy, i was quite suprised when i read that he had a special devotion to St. Mary Magdelene de' Pazzi, who is quite the opposite of the easy-going sainthood that is promoted within the new church.
The popularity of Carlo Acutis within the NO church is indeed suprising considering nobody really knows what he did except being devout and building a Catholic website...
Yeah, I've never seen that movie "Eurotrip", but merely looked it up on one of the "parents guide" websites, and ... just wow. Nor was the assertion just that he watched it once, but that he was a fan of the movie and watched it regularly. There's evidently some depiction of grave impurity (and nudity) involving a religious context that would also render those scenes sacrilegeous / blasphemous.
But, apart from that, there's just nothing remarkable about the young man other than that he was somewhat religious (to a degree that maybe put him in the top 50th percentile of youth prior to Vatican II, at best) ... but not so much so that his friends even remarked that they considered him to be particularly devout or pious (with some being surprised at the later acclaim he received). Put that together with how his wealthy mother funded a large PR campaign to promote him, the whole thing stinks.
I do certainly hope that the young man saved his soul, but declaring him a saint for the Catholic altars quite honestly make a mockery of the (true) saints ... but then the entire Conciliar Church makes a mockery of the Catholic Church.
Apart from his mother's PR campaign, we all know why he was selected ... to try to make sanctity seem "cool" and "attainable" by just being an ordinary modern teen. While I understand that many seem discouraged into believing that sanctity is such a rare thing that ... why even bother to try, right? ... but then lowering the bar so much that it barely even means anything is not the answer either. We have the answer in, say, a St. Therese of Lisieux and her Little Way. She worked no miracles (while alive), was not incorrupt, did not levitate or have ecstatic visions, didn't heal or cure anyone (again, while alive), didn't do extraordinary penances, didn't receive the stigmata etc. ... but just did her duties of state with great love and accepted whatever sufferings God sent here way. Her Little Way is attainable by anyone who simply corresponds with God's grace, as is sanctity in general ... but it was also very real. People might otherwise think, "in order to be a saint I have to levitate, wear hair shirts, scourge myself, disfigure my own good looks, fast on bread and water for years at a time, do all-night vigils 3-4 times per week, receive the stigmata etc. etc." ... but the example of St. Therese cuts through that kind of barrier, but her virtue was nevertheless of the heroic variety, and you don't need to "dumb down" sanctity to where there's not much to challenge you or very little to sapire to. Yeah, I can be a saint if I go watch dirty movies, listen to rock music, but just do a pious thing here or there, and anyone can be a saint, right? No.
Topic: What do you think of Blessed Carlos Acutis? (Read 15444 times)