Overview

• Construction is underway in Chacras de Coria on a 4,300‑square‑meter site on Viamonte Street, with completion targeted for late 2027.
• All building materials were donated, and a fundraising drive launched this week will finance construction labor.
• The parish will hold overnight vigils on Sept. 6–7 and screen the canonization live, while parish priest Osvaldo Scandura travels to Rome.
• The Romanesque design by architects Franco Pérez Magnelli, Jorge Robello, and Bruno Di Fabio takes cues from the Church of the Stripping in Assisi, with Santiago Racca directing the build and Monteverdi as contractor.
• Pope León XIV is scheduled to canonize Carlo Acutis on Sept. 7 in Rome following Vatican recognition of two miracles involving a Brazilian child and a Costa Rican student.