About Christian confirmation, a sacrament or rite of passage in which a baptised person strengthens their relationship with God and becomes a full member of the Christian community. Confirmation is a ...

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 ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for data that can confirm our beliefs, as opposed to looking for data that might challenge those beliefs. The bias degrades our judgments when our initial ...

Modernity, it was once thought, wreaked havoc with religious tradition, rendering centuries-old rituals obsolete. We now know better. Modernity has not only made room for tradition, it has even given ...

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore welcomes his fellow bishops to opening Mass of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' the fall plenary assembly Nov. 11, 2024, at the Basilica of the National ...