In Defense of Altar Girls: Lessons learned while serving at Mass Kerry Weber April 22, 2015 It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the Midwest.

A Girl Serving With Pride At the Altar. February 1, 2008. When I signed up last year to be an altar server at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, it was easy.

Altar server Shaniah Chavez holds a candle as she participates in the opening procession during the Easter Vigil at St. John the Evangelist Church in Center Moriches, N.Y., April 8, 2023.

Girl altar servers at Saint Fergal’s Church, Bray in County Wicklow. Report shows Saint Fergal’s Church, Ballywaltern, Bray, County Wicklow which allows girl altar servers. To camera Kieron Wood.

Altar-serving tradition is dying out as families choose sport over mass . ... and in 1994 Pope John Paul II changed canon law to allow girls as servers. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel.

“In this context, I wish to reiterate, what I stated at the presbyteral meeting held on Oct. 21, 2024, that no girls should be invited to serve at the altar, as altar servers in the archdiocese ...

The 77-year-old polyglot cardinal is having none of it. “No girls should be invited to serve at the altar … it should always be young boys.” ...

Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka are upset over a recent order from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith banning girls from being altar servers, but have not protested as they did during a public stir against their ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 22, 2024 / 08:00 am. Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has mandated that girls are not permitted to serve as altar servers in parishes within the Archdiocese of ...

Recently, the Winona Catholic parishes recognized the altar servers for their time and dedication for serving during the Holy ...

(RNS) — Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has taken the lead in keeping women away from the altar. Last October, he decreed that there would be no female altar servers in his archdiocese.