Digital discipleship
Students already live online. Discipleship has to reach them there, with habits of prayer, honesty, and charity that hold up in a group chat as well as a chapel.
The Acutis Project
Forming digital disciples.
Free, Catholic, classroom-ready books and tools that help students from preschool to college meet technology and AI with dignity, conscience, communion, and wonder.
41 books · 5 anchor strands · 6 grade bands · always free for educators
Why it matters
Moral and spiritual formation should keep pace with digital literacy.
Imago Dei
Every person bears the image of God. No follower count, filter, or model output can measure a dignity that is given, not earned. That truth anchors every lesson we publish.
The Church's teaching on AI
From Antiqua et Nova (2025) on the relationship between artificial and human intelligence to the social encyclicals, the Church has a rich, hopeful word on technology. We translate it for every grade.
The tools
One mission, four ways in.
The Library
41 books across six grade bands
Student workbooks, teacher's textbooks, and Before K storybooks aligned to all five anchor strands. Free downloads for educators.
Open The LibraryTech Bible
Scripture for the digital age
Verses, reflections, and prayers mapped to the technology questions students actually ask, searchable by strand and theme.
Advent
A digital-discipleship Advent journey
Daily reflections, family challenges, and unplugged moments from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas.
Framework Visualizer
Explore the framework interactively
Browse every strand, substrand, and grade-band goal of the Catholic Companion Framework in one interactive map.
Start with your students
Pick a grade band.
Each band has five student workbooks, one for every strand, plus a teacher's textbook. Before K adds five read-aloud storybooks.
Before K 11 books
Ages 3–5
Read-aloud storybooks and draw-and-circle workbooks for the littlest disciples.
Browse K–2 6 books
Kindergarten – Grade 2
Short lessons, big truths, and plenty of room to draw and match.
Browse Grades 3–5 6 books
Ages 8–11
Scenarios, sorting, and first conversations about screens and conscience.
Browse Grades 6–8 6 books
Ages 11–14
Journaling, debate, and case studies for the first smartphone years.
Browse Grades 9–12 6 books
Ages 14–18
Deepfakes, algorithms, and dignity examined through Catholic Social Teaching.
Browse Higher Ed 6 books
College & formation
Seminar-style engagement with encyclicals, the Catechism, and primary sources.
BrowseOur namesake
Why St. Carlo Acutis?
Carlo Acutis (1991–2006) was a teenager from Milan who taught himself to code and used it to build a website cataloguing Eucharistic miracles from around the world. He loved video games, kept his screen time to an hour a week, served the poor in his neighborhood, and went to daily Mass. He called the Eucharist his "highway to heaven." He died of leukemia at fifteen, was beatified in 2020, and was canonized by Pope Leo XIV on September 7, 2025, the first saint of the millennial generation.
Carlo is proof that a young person can master technology without being mastered by it. That is exactly the formation this project exists to offer. Every book and tool here is built in his spirit: originals, not photocopies.
"All people are born as originals, but many die as photocopies."
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