Ireland’s traditional Confirmation Pledge has been updated to include vaping and cigarette smoking. The pledge, traditionally taken at the time of Confirmation, has long seen young people promise not to drink alcohol until the age of eighteen. However, it will now also include the pledge takes asking God for help “not to use drugs, vapes, cigarettes, or anything that could harm my body or mind.”
The rewording was announced as part of Temperance Sunday, the final Sunday before Lent, when the Church in Ireland marks a day of prayer encouraging Catholics to reflect on their relationship with drugs and all substances or behaviours that can diminish human dignity and freedom.
