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The Catholic Church is canonising the late Carlo Acutis, a tech-savvy youngster who died in 2006, and with it, usher in a new era of religion at a time when worship is on the decline, writes Peter Stanford

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aint-making in the Catholic Church – or canonisation as it is called – is traditionally a drawn-out, opaque process with the successful candidates who have emerged from it in recent times usually worthy but unsurprising long-dead clerics and nuns. That is why Carlo Acutis joining their heavenly ranks has caught the attention of so many.