Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young Danes can choose between a religious confirmation, secular alternatives like civil or humanist confirmations or simply throw ...

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 ...

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 Archbishop Lori, who has led ...

At 15, like most Danish teenagers, Nora Pihl chose to get confirmed but for her, as for a growing number of young Danes, it wasn't a religious affair. Confirmation is a rite in many Christian churches ...