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Summary: Fr. Gabriel discusses what happened over the course of the centuries to contribute both to the demise of a catechetical process and, particularly in the western church, a re-definition of the process through a number of different understandings that arose around the notion of "confirmation." This will set the stage for our final discussion in this series: where do we go from here with catechesis for a new century?