The Confirmandi had been catechized and prepared for this Sacrament beginning in October 2024. Over the next two days, the Bishop also presided over the Confirmation celebrations at a combined service ...

Bishop Dowd of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie conducted the Confirmation Service for students in the Parish of St. Monica. Confirmation is a sacrament instituted by the church in reference to the ...

Some parish programs of preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation require the candidate to write a letter to the bishop requesting to be confirmed. That letter usually contains personal ...

A teenager uses a smartphone to take a picture at the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo ...

To become a saint, however, miracles do need to be attested. One in Carlo’s canonisation process was the healing of a Costa Rican student from a bicycle accident in Italy after her mother prayed ...

When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson he had in his possession a handwritten document in which he described healthcare corporations as “mafiosa [that] ...

Born some time after 260 A.D. in Myra (now the Demre district of Antalya, Turkey), Saint Nicholas was an early Christian bishop and patron saint of children and sailors.

Vatican City, Oct 30, 2024 / 10:40 am Pope Francis addressed thousands of international pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, urging them not to turn the sacrament of confirmation into ...

Pope Francis addressed thousands of international pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, urging them not to turn the sacrament of confirmation into their “last rites” as Catholics but ...

"The problem," said the Bishop of Rome, "is how to ensure that the Sacrament of Confirmation is not reduced, in practice, to “last rites”, that is the Sacrament of “departure” from the Church." "It is ...

Vatican City, 30 October, 2024 / 7:40 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Francis addressed thousands of international pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, urging them not to turn the sacrament of ...

The Catechism teaches us that, “by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit” (1285).