The canonizations of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati show how ordinary young men can become extraordinary witnesses of faith in a secular age, Father Sean Connolly, pastor at the Parish of Saint Margaret of Cortona in the Bronx, told Newsmax on Sunday.

“We live in a modern world that’s increasingly secular,” Connolly said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “The popular culture that our youth, our children, are raised in can be quite vulgar, and it only promotes a life with ambitions for the glorification of oneself, the mad pursuit of wealth, fame, and power.”

But the new saints, Acutis and Frassati, are two shining lights in the midst of the darkness,” he said.

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