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Gulf Pine Catholic • March 6, 2020 3 Bishop Kihneman’s Schedule Gulf Pine Catholic (ISSN No. 0746-3804) March 6, 2020 Volume 37, Issue 14 The GULF PINE CATHOLIC , published every other week, is an official publication of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. Editorial offices are located at 1790 Popps Ferry Road Biloxi, MS 39532. Periodical postage paid at Gulfport, MS. —POSTMASTER— Send address changes to: The GULF PINE CATHOLIC 1790 Popps Ferry Road Biloxi, MS 39532 —PUBLISHER— Most Rev. Louis F. 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Allow three weeks for changes of address. —DEADLINES for MARCH 20 EDITION— News copy and photos: Due MARCH 12, 4 p.m. Advertising: Completed Ad and/or copy due march 12, 10 a.m. March 3 Confirmation Mass, Sacred Heart Dedeaux (includes St. Matthew, Annunication), 6:30 p.m. March 4 Housing Board, 3 p.m. March 5 Priests’ Day of Reflection March 6-8 Called z& Gifted Team Training, Pastoral Center March 12 Seminary Board Meetings, St. Joseph Seminary, 10:30 a.m. March 13 Confirmation, St. John the Evangelist, Gulfport (Includes St. James & St. Joseph), 6 p.m. March 14 Confirmation, St. Joseph the Worker, Moss Point, (Includes St. Ann Mission, Hurley), 4 p.m. March 15 Rite of Election, Nativity Cathedral, 2 p.m. March 17 Confirmation, St. Michael, Biloxi (Includes Nativity, OMS & BFXS), 6 p.m. March 19 Resurrection Elementary School Mass & Visit, Sacred Heart Church, Pascagoula & Resurrection Elementary, 8:30 a.m. March Youth Conference, MS Gulf 20-22 Coast Convention Center Pope recognizes miracle in sainthood cause of young tech whiz BY JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year- old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today. In a meeting Feb. 22 with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope Carlo Acutis, who was born in 1991 in London and died in 2006 in Monza, Italy, is pictured in an undated photo. Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of the 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today. CNS photo/courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo Acutis advanced the sainthood causes of Acutis, as well as one woman and seven men, includ- ing Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and his two companions who were murdered in El Salva- dor in 1977. The Vatican announced Feb. 23 that the pope had signed the decrees. Antonia Salzano, Acutis’ mother, told Catholic News Service Feb. 24 that the news of the pope’s approval made her “really, re- ally happy.” “Pope Francis has always been close to Carlo; he quoted him in ‘Christus Vivit,’ and this was a great privilege in that he cited him as an example for young people in the whole world,” Salzano said. In “Christus Vivit” ( “Christ Lives” ), Pope Francis’ exhortation on young people, he said the teen was a role model for young people today who are often tempted by the traps of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure.” “Carlo was well-aware that the whole ap- paratus of communications, advertising and social networking can be used to lull us, to make us addicted to consumerism and buy- ing the latest thing on the market, obsessed with our free time, caught up in negativity,” the pope wrote. “Yet he knew how to use the new com- munications technology to transmit the Gos- pel, to communicate values and beauty,” he said. Before his death from leukemia in 2006, Acutis was an average teen with an above- average knack for computers. He put that knowledge to use by creating an online da- tabase of Eucharistic miracles around the world. Salzano told CNS that her son’s work, which included a traveling exhibition of eu- charistic miracles, has been displayed “on every continent” and was the inspiration behind the documentary, “Segni” ( “Signs” ) which was produced by the Vatican Dicast- ery for Communication in October 2018. His devotion to spreading the word about Eucharistic miracles around the world, as well as his upcoming beatification “is an oc- casion to make Carlo’s spirituality known to those who don’t know him,” Salzano said. “Carlo did it with great love because he wanted everyone to love the Blessed Sac- rament and place it first, something that he would do by going to Mass every day as well as participating in the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament,” she said.   The miracle approved by the pope in- volved the healing of a young Brazilian boy afflicted with a rare congenital disease of the pancreas, Salzano told CNS . For three days, the child’s family prayed a novena “with a priest who was devoted to Carlo. On the third day, the child said he wanted to eat” after days of not being able to eat solid foods, she said. The doctors later discovered that he was completely healed. While the Vatican has not announced the date of his beatification, Salzano said a re- quest was made for it to be held May 1 in Assisi. As part of the canonization process, Acu- tis’ body was exhumed and transferred to a place suitable for public veneration, the Shrine of the Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi in 2019. The other decrees approved by Pope Francis Feb. 22 recognized: ? The miracle needed for the canoniza- tion of Blessed Devasahayam Pillai, an 18th- century Indian martyr. He was born in 1712 and died in 1752. ? The miracle needed for the canoniza- tion of Blessed Anna Maria Rubatto, founder of the order now known as the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto. She was born in Carmagnola, Italy, in 1844 and died in Mon- tevideo, Uruguay, in 1904. SEE POPE ACUTIS MIRACLE, PAGE 15