Pope Francis addressed thousands of international pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, urging them not to turn the sacrament of confirmation into their “last rites” as Catholics but to use it ...

Holy Spirit Parish recently celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Mary’s Church in Mocanaqua. Eleven young people from St. Martha’s Church in Fairmount Springs and St. Adalbert’s Church in ...

A spirit-filled celebration marked a special day at Our Lady of Miracles Church, Milagres, Mangaluru, as fifty children ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Ignatius Loyola parishes celebrated the Sacrament of ...

In a move apparently intended to keep more young people involved with their faith; Most Rev. J. Douglas Deshotel, Catholic bishop of Lafayette, has decreed that Catholics in the diocese — which ...

An Argentine boy recently made the special effort to walk 11 kilometers (about seven miles) on muddy roads to receive the sacrament of confirmation, and the news reached Pope Francis, who sent him a ...

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 ...

The Bishop of Mangalore diocese, Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, was on a pastoral visit to St Raphael Church Badyar, Beltangady from ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston anoints the head of a confirmation candidate at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston June 5, 2022, during a celebration of the sacrament of ...

The Diocese of Columbus will lower the age of confirmation to fourth grade (ages 9 and 10). Bishop Earl Fernandes cited increasing secularization and challenges to faith as reasons for the change. The ...

Reflecting on the accounts of the confirmation of the first Christians, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and in St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, Pope Francis said it is God himself who ...