FARGO, N.D. — In the largely rural Diocese of Fargo, N.D., Father Paul Duchschere will soon be one among many priests helping to prepare children for a sacrament commonly reserved for later in life.

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore has decided to lower the age of confirmation to 9 in a move designed to increase family involvement in the formation of youth. For Lori, who has led the ...

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 ...

1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful that ...

Confirmation, like the adolescents it is often conferred upon, is in awkward transition, a moveable feast among the seven sacraments celebrated by the Catholic church. Differing experts say it should ...

Confirmation in the Catholic Diocese of Erie will no longer be a one-year-and-done foundation for faith, and it won't be limited to the classroom. The diocese not only is changing the timing for ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The problem is how to ensure that the Sacrament of Confirmation is not reduced, in practice, to “last rites”, that is the Sacrament of “departure” from the Church, but ...

A large group of teenagers preparing to receive the sacrament of Confirmation in June at St. John Vianney Church in Mentor is learning valuable life lessons along the path. About 110 students in ...

Two years ago, a group of 10th-graders threw a Christmas party for area residents with Down syndrome. Last year, another group helped paint the Brady Faith Center on South Avenue near the Southwest ...

NORRISTOWN — The Most Reverend Nelson Perez, archbishop of Philadelphia, was the main celebrant Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, as 69 parishioners of St. Patrick Church received the sacrament of Confirmation.