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 she was a young girl, Logan Crotty dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest. She had always had an insatiable desire for intimacy with God and for a place of importance within God's mission, the ...

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 ...

William J. Greif, an altar server at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church for 10 years, has been named Altar Boy of the Year for the Diocese of St. Petersburg. The award, for boys 13 to 18 years old ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The former newspaper adviser at a Catholic high school in Broomfield says administrators removed her from that role and temporarily halted publication of the ...

To many boys in many parishes, serving at the altar has become a “girl thing.” There’s no better time to encourage boys to change their thinking than the Jan. 31 feast of St. John Bosco, “Father and ...

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 ...

Twelve-year-old Katie spills out of the car, all 4-foot-7 of her, and walks to the side entrance of the imposing Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in north Baltimore. She passes under the “Maria Immaculata” ...