In graduate school, I was a staunch defender of the Eastern approach to initiation. The baptized child receives all at the same time the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist. This ...

This course provides a basic overview of sacramentality and the seven sacraments in the life of a twenty-first century Catholic. Against a backdrop of a sacramental life view and guided by text, this ...

MUNDELEIN, Ill.(CNA) — Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, N.D., in a recent lecture, examined the sacrament of confirmation and explained his reasons for believing children should receive it before first ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Catholics in northern Colorado soon will follow a different order of the faith’s sacraments of initiation, with confirmation coming in third grade rather ...

One hundred and fourteen second and third grade children received Holy Communion, or Eucharist, for the first time at Our Lady of Fatima at five weekend liturgies over two weekends this spring.