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 ...

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 ...

DENVER — The age of confirmation in the Archdiocese of Denver is being lowered to third-graders. The move is part of a restoration by Archbishop Samuel Aquila of the traditional sacramental order that ...

A pivotal moment of the OCIA process is the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, where participants receive the sacraments. Perkins recalled the moment last year when Fr. Brian Ching, rector of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults candidates, team members and sponsors talk in groups at Washington University’s Catholic Student Center in St. Louis in this 2012 file photo. (Credit: Lisa ...