Working in a Catholic mentoring organization for almost a decade, I have been interested in the idea of rites of passage for years. Simply put, all societies throughout time have had specific cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the name of raising up lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ, another U.S. Latin-rite diocese has decided to restore confirmation to its traditional place before first Holy ...

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.