What is the appropriate age for Catholic children baptized in infancy to celebrate confirmation? It might seem a relatively minor issue. Yet I believe the great efforts the U.S. Catholic Church has ...

The sacrament of confirmation is the pathway to an adult faith life for young people. As their teachers, it is our job to help today’s confirmation class students meet and love Jesus and live his ...

VATICAN CITY – In his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis reflected on the sacrament of confirmation, explaining to Christians that this sacrament is intrinsically linked to their baptism and fortifies ...

FORT HOOD, Texas - Military family members confirm their faith at the Spirit of Fort Hood Chapel, March 15, during a sacrament held by Bishop Neal Buckon, the Archdiocese for the Military Services, ...

At one of our church’s weekly staff meetings the youth minister said he had a problem and needed his colleagues’ advice. In the course of teaching the confirmation class, he had asked the young people ...

This weekend, I will confirm a young lady whom I’ve known for more than half her life. It’ll be a bittersweet Sunday. The year she joined our confirmation group was the year I ditched traditional ...

Just had another round of confirmation in school. This is becoming a yearly affair. Every time a new batch of students comes to our technical school, I soon discover that a great majority of them have ...

Growing up in a small, red-brick church on the outskirts of Meridian, God made sense to me. And church and the people of the church made even more sense. I knew Jesus. Jesus knew me. And God’s people ...