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 ...

About Christian confirmation, a sacrament or rite of passage in which a baptised person strengthens their relationship with God and becomes a full member of the Christian community. Confirmation is a ...

Over 100 young people from the parishes of St. John’s in Westminster, Md., and St. Joseph’s in Taneytown were confirmed on Dec. 2, 2025, by Bishop Adam Parker. Credit: Rosalyn Thackston On a cold ...

Gallup, N.M. — Bishop James Wall of the Diocese of Gallup has announced in a pastoral letter the restoration of the order of the sacraments of initiation in his diocesan territory, making it the 13th ...

Last fall my 17-year-old niece asked me to be her confirmation sponsor. And when I traveled to Wisconsin for the ceremony this spring, I noticed that she seemed to be having some anxiety about it all.

It is like when you throw a stone into a pool and the concentric waves spread out further and further. Who knows where it will end? —C.S. Lewis Confirmation is such a lost sacrament, isn’t it? We try ...