text: I am for the "restored order" of the sacraments - Baptism, Confirmation, and then First Holy Communion.  I agree that the hodge-podge of confused rules and reason we have across North America now is no solution to anything.
  Of course, I was being somewhat hyperbolic regarding "mature spirituality".   I believe that both the ability to deal with ambiguity and obedience to just authority (maybe some others thrown in) are necessary in the Christian.   That said, I think that it is the graces of Confirmation that lead even the physically immature toward the spiritual maturity we see in history - I'm thinking particularly of child martyrs of the French Revolution and those of Japan who were given the option of saving themselves and still refused.