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The September 7th canonizations of Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be a crucial step in a decades-long effort to attract people to the Catholic faith through young, holy patrons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir canonization confirms that holiness is not an abstract ideal but can manifest itself in contemporary ways, close to the sensibilities of young people, in the present and now \u2026 through friendship, study, family, the challenges of today, and even through illness faced with Christian hope,\u201d said Leticia Arr\u00e1ez, a communications researcher at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Arr\u00e1ez, the last 40 years have seen youth become \u201cmajor protagonists\u201d in shaping the Church\u2019s identity and spearheading its evangelical mission throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, young people were given priority and a privileged place of recognition within the Church, especially after the pope publicly entrusted the Cross of the Jubilee Year of the Redemption to young people on Easter Sunday in 1984.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the close of the 1983-1984 jubilee, John Paul II expressed confidence in young people as credible leaders. During the gathering in Rome, he said they had a \u201cright and duty\u201d to respond to the challenges they see in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have a sort of prophetic role: You can denounce today\u2019s ills by speaking out, first and foremost, against that widespread \u2018culture of death,\u2019\u201d John Paul told the gathering. \u201c\u200b\u200bIt is up to you, with your innate sensitivity to the values \u200b\u200bproclaimed by Christ, and your aversion to compromise, to work, together with your elders who have not resigned themselves to such compromises. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the Canonizations . 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