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 ...

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 ...

The Diocese of Palayamkottai in India launched an altar server training program with the help of the Diocese of Columbus, ...

When I signed up last year to be an altar server at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, it was easy. But two years ago, that would have been impossible for any girl. One day when I was 6 years ...

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. (OSV News ...

Catholic parishes across Northern Virginia will be allowed for the first time to use girls and women as altar servers, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde said yesterday, leaving Lincoln, Neb., as 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 ...

Maverick and Eve Adams, 12, of Randolph, are pictured with Bishop Richard J. Malone accept their altar server awards. Submitted photo Maverick and Eve Adams, 12, of Randolph were honored at the 50th ...

The Oscar winner talked to PEOPLE ahead of the premiere of his new faith-based anthology series 'Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints' The boy who’d grow up to direct The Last Temptation of Christ ...