Pope Francis on Tuesday met with more than 50,000 altar servers on an annual pilgrimage to Rome from Germany, urging them to bring Jesus to the world, especially those outside the Church. "You are ...

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 ...

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church held its annual annual Sneaux Party for new and returning altar servers after altar server training on Sept. 20 on the church grounds. The training was led by Deacon David ...

COBOURG – As the organ backed a spirited choir, a gay man carried the Eucharist down the aisle of a troubled church to the altar — an altar at which he can no longer serve. It was a sign of ...

When Althea Connor, 38, was growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., her brother was an altar boy at her family's Episcopal church. Connor said she remembers only one altar girl, who was a year or two younger ...

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, ...

I hate waking up to this kind of news: a headline about the rector at the Phoenix cathedral who has decided to ban girls as altar servers, even though nothing in current church law forbids it. Like ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A Bay Area church is now under fire over a controversial new policy saying only boys can be altar servers. The new practice is making waves at the century old church Star of ...

Police are calling it a new low. A thief strolled into a Gloucester County church during Mass recently and stole a bag of valuables belonging to an altar server. Authorities are sharing photos of ...

Another member of the Guam Catholic Church was named for the first time in a lawsuit, involving allegations he sexually abused a Santa Rita altar boy more than 100 times from around 1955 to 1957. In ...