Catania, Italy - September 2025 - The Salesian  St Paul Province of Sicily , Italy (ISI) experienced a day of particular spiritual and community intensity: on Saturday 27 September 2025, Catania had the honour of welcoming the Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Fabio Attard, Don Bosco's 11th Successor, for the municipality's presentation of honorary citizenship. The event was a renewed educational impetus for Salesian Sicily, an opportunity to reconnect with the roots of  Don Bosco ‘s charism and project it with renewed creativity into contemporary challenges.

Ecuador - From September 11 to 15, 2025, the 11th Successor of Don Bosco, Fr. Fabio Attard, visited Ecuador for what was his first Animation Visit to a Province since being elected Rector Major. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the Salesian Center for Ongoing Formation in America (CSFPA). The visit also included several other meaningful moments of encounter and animation with Salesians, members of the Salesian Family, and young people involved in the various missions and centers of the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” Province of Ecuador.

Vatican City - September 2025 - On Sunday, 7 September 2025, Pope Leo XIV presided over the rite that made two young laymen Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati saints. The ceremony, celebrated on the parvis of St Peter's Basilica, was attended by 80,000 jubilant faithful, together with institutional personalities such as the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella. Also present were Cardinal Roberto Repole, archbishop of Turin; Archbishop Mario Delpini, archbishop of Milan; Monsignor Claudio Giuliodori, general ecclesiastical assistant of Italian Catholic Action; and Bishop Domenico Sorrentino, bishop of Assisi - Nocera Umbra - Gualdo Tadino and Foligno. In his homily, Pope Leo XIV recalled their ‘being in love with Jesus’ and their ceaseless desire to ‘give everything for him’. A love cultivated through ‘simple means, within everyone's reach’, to authentically live  ‘next door holiness’.