John Robert Whipple, of Camp Springs, longtime musician for St. Philip’s Parish and other venues, died June 17.

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

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff. Leo recalled Thursday that ...

Aislin Parker, a San Diego-based server, took to TikTok to share her trick for securing larger tips that sparked a heated ...

According to Syro-Malabar spokesperson Father Paul Thelakat, girls under the age of 14 are allowed to serve at the altar in Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese. The smaller Syro-Malankara Church does not ...

ARLINGTON HAD been one of only two dioceses in the country — along with Lincoln, Neb. — that had prohibited girls from partaking in altar ceremonies during Mass.

Altar boys have had a place in mass for centuries, and in 1994 Pope John Paul II changed canon law to allow girls as servers.

Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka are upset over a recent order from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith banning girls from being altar servers. The cardinal, the church leader of the island nation, issued the circular ...

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 ...

If all eyes are on the altar servers, something has gone wrong. I mostly stayed out of trouble when I served Mass with my sister in our funny little village ...

More than 3,000 people have signed a petition urging the owners of a chapel-turned bar in a Maryland Marriott property to abstain from serving liquor from the former high altar.

“No girls should be invited to serve at the altar, as altar servers, in the archdiocese,” Ranjith wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to parish priests that was made public this week.