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Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 aged 15, has already been dubbed "the patron saint of the internet". On Saturday, he was beatified at a ceremony in the town of Assisi and moved one step closer to sainthood. The teenager recorded purported miracles online and helped run websites for Catholic organisations.

Patron Saint of the Internet? Seriously? What all marketing Holy Gimmick is the Catholic Church trying to fool the world with? First it was miracles that the saints did when alive. Then it was after they were dead and performed miracles when prayed too. Now the latest is online abracadabra of miracles. India is allegedly the brain that runs Infornation technology globally. To the extent that CEOs of many global conglomerates are Indians. Maybe they don't qualify to be Saint material after they are dead as they are not Catholics.

The speed at which this white kid is beatified brings about the question on the races of saints so far. Mostly all white? Does God not like black, brown and yellow skinned Catholics? Or are they not holy, spiritual and prayerful enough to be saints? Wish God was Michael Jackson as he could take anyone to be his brother, it did not matter if he was Black or White. Now imagine if the Church beautified Michael Jackon, the question would be, is he black or white?

Coming to the beatification of Carlos Acutis, just wondering why a holy and spiritual kid taken away by God, due to leukemia? Was he taken so he could be declared a Saint and prayed too for miracles? Wondering what miracle can I ask him in prayer? As he is a Saint of the Internet I will pray that my Internet connection never goes down?

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 12:54 AM