SCPN is named for St. Carlo Acutis. Born in 1991, he is considered the patron saint of the internet.
St. Carlo loved video games and computer programming, which he was very good at. Out of temperance, he limited himself to one hour per week of gaming, and he used his computer skills to build a website documenting Eucharistic miracles.
St. Carlo had a great devotion to the Eucharist. He used to say, “If we stand in front of the sun, we get a tan, but if we stand before the Blessed Sacrament, we become saints.”
St. Carlo died at age 15 of leukemia.
Blessed Carlo was animated first by a love for the Eucharist. He had a hard time understanding why, given that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, people would not be clambering to get to Adoration and forming lines outside the chapel.
On a more mundane level, computers were also an important part of his life and an area where he excelled. But he already saw, even in the early days of personal computers, that digital culture often pulls us away from real-life connection and the tangible world around us.
St. Carlo understood that a renewed devotion to the Eucharist – something relational, physical, a full personal presence – is the perfect response to the isolating tendencies of the digital age.
Where screens mediate and fragment experience, the Eucharist offers wholeness; where online life can breed distraction and detachment, the sacrament invites attention, reverence, and embodied communion.
For St. Carlo, it wasn’t about rejecting technology, but about anchoring it in something deeper—something eternal—that could reorient the soul toward love, presence, and true connection.
Learn more
Official website: https://carloacutis-en.org
St. Carlo Parent Network 