Jane Tomaszewski was thinking about becoming a Catholic when she learned an unusual ... Mass at St. Robert’s this Saturday, followed by confirmation and first Communion. She is part of a large ...

For countless children in Ireland’s Catholic primary schools, confirmation is usually celebrated when they are 12 years old on the cusp of adolescence, in the final months of their final year of ...

Heidemann believes that, if the church were to draw closer to the arts, it would attract young people to the Catholic faith — just as it had happened to him. “It’s a little, first try to ...

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 ...

my first Communion as a Catholic, confirmation as a Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us,” he continued. Homan noted the ...

Before his Catholic confirmation this spring, he served many years as an Episcopal priest leading congregations in Connecticut, New York and North Carolina.

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

The girls’ confirmation ceremony — a Catholic sacrament in which the participant receives the Holy Spirit — will take place late April at St. Barbara’s Catholic Church in Penn Township.

The Archdiocese of Boston has lowered the age for Catholic confirmation from 10th grade to eighth grade, to “allow more young people to receive the sacrament,” according to Cardinal Seán O ...