Three days after a new study suggested a majority of Catholic parish leaders think a controversial new series of liturgical translations should not go forward, the U.S. bishops are debating here ...

Until recently, it was the practice of the congregation I serve for the members of the confirmation class, most of them ninth graders, to write individual statements of faith. In those statements the ...

Too many Catholic teens are slipping into adulthood without undergoing the central sacrament of confirmation, a formal acceptance into the church, complete with a special anointing of the Holy Spirit.

English Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said that confirmations in the traditional rite are no longer permitted in the Archdiocese of Westminster. In a Jan. 20 letter to the Latin Mass Society of England ...

As the eight special-needs confirmandi - wearing huge smiles on their faces and roses on their clothes - processed Friday afternoon into the sanctuary of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, they knew ...

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 ...