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Confirmation , also known as Chrismation , is one of the seven sacraments through which Catholics pass in the process of their religious upbringing. In this sacrament they receive the Holy Spirit. ...
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I was in the same boat untl a few years ago: babptized, first communion, Catholic schools through high school, but never confirmed and drifted from the church. I even was married in a civil service. My wife and I started attending mass in what would become our parish, but we did not receive communion (she was not Catholic).
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My parents want me to go through confirmation in the Catholic Church. However, they are clearly aware that I am an atheist (and I have my reasons). Now they are blackmailing me by threatening to take away my flute (my passion in life is music) to force me into being confirmed.
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How to Prepare Your Teen to Receive Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church ... How to Become Catholic Without RCIA (removed) ... eHow Article: How to Have a Child Confirmed Catholic...
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic. ... Downing Street confirmed the former prime minister had converted, but said it was a private matter and it would not comment further.
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In considering the values which these religions witness to and offer humanity, with an open and positive approach, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions states: “The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions.
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Five years later, on 15 August 1997, the Pope promulgated the editio typica of the Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae and confirmed its fundamental purpose “as a full, complete exposition of Catholic doctrine, enabling everyone to know what the Church professes, celebrates, lives and prays in her daily life”.[2]
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