In the West the desire to reserve the completion of Baptism to the bishop caused the temporal separation of the two sacraments. The East has kept them united, so that Confirmation is conferred by ...

Confirmation is a sign that a person has reached maturity and is now able to take responsibility for their own faith. It also strengthens and deepens the connection to the Church that is ...

Confirmation is a Sacrament through which we receive the ... Who administers Confirmation? A. The bishop is the ordinary minister of Confirmation. Q. 676. Why do we say the bishop is the "ordinary ...

If, therefore, Baptism is the Sacrament of birth, Confirmation is the Sacrament of growth. For this very reason it is also the Sacrament of witness, because this is closely linked to the maturity of ...

Confirmation takes place at a later stage in life, often as a teenager. It is seen as a personal commitment to the faith that the baby was baptised into many years before. Infant baptism means ...

Twenty-one young Catholics received the Sacrament of Confirmation at the Church of St Andrew during the parish feast day ...

“For some people, he would have been the bishop who would have celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation with them when they were in their teen years,” the Reverend Nathan Siray said.

Throughout the now-concluded Diocesan Golden Jubilee year, Catholics across the diocese found a plethora of reasons to ...

Could the Bishop truly be so misinformed as to the countless thousands of confessions heard (in contrast to the sacrament’s ... communion since 1968, or a confirmation around the same time.