The most important news story in the past year for the U.S. Catholic Church has probably been the infighting among U.S. bishops about whether or not pro-choice politicians, like President Joe Biden, ...

Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has mandated that girls are not permitted to serve as altar servers in parishes within the Archdiocese of Colombo. “No girls should be invited to serve at the altar ...

When I was a young girl attending Mass with my family at St. Mary's Catholic Church in the 1960s and '70s, I don't ever remember wanting to be an altar server. So the fact that I ended up becoming one ...

As I sit and wait, thousands of thoughts are running through my mind. Where is everyone? What if I have to do this all by myself? Will I remember my cues? That was how I felt on my first day of altar ...

ATLANTA — As soon as she was old enough, third-grader Ellen Clarke joined the first wave of girl altar servers, helping break up a club reserved for Roman Catholic boys for centuries. Seven years ...

Kyra Pence receives her medallion from Bishop Richard Malone during the 48th annual Catholic Bishop’s Altar Server awards recently at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Buffalo. Submitted photo BUFFALO — Kyra ...

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, stands for a portrait before a Mass at the Princeton University chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao) David Kim, a ...

The former newspaper adviser at a Catholic high school in Broomfield says administrators removed her from that role and temporarily halted publication of the paper over a student’s article questioning ...

Deacon Black Bear made it his mission to integrate Native American spiritualities and Catholic rites and rituals.

In this 2014 file photo, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., and Hal Elkins are seen together during a Mass in the chapel at Oregon State Penitentiary. (Credit: Jon DeBellis/Catholic ...