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 ...

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 ...

Over the past year my daughter and I have had a fair number of conversations about the sacrament of confirmation. They began when I realized that, for economic reasons, she was not going to attend a ...

Confirmation candidate Ayden Morocho kneels in prayer as his sponsor, Grace Esposito, stands behind him during a confirmation Mass May 5, 2022, at Holy Family Church in Queens, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory ...

The Catholic Diocese of Columbus will allow children to get the confirmation sacrament at a younger age as the diocese Bishop tried to address young people leaving the church. The Catholic Diocese of ...

The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the "sacrament of goodbye" for young people, who receive it and then do not come to church again until ...

In confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are increased within a soul: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. Fresco of Pentecost in Church of ...

His Excellency Bishop John M. Dogherty, retired auxiliary bishop of Scranton, recently conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation on 62 young men and women of Nativity of Our Lord Parish. Members of the ...