Q: I am a 14-year-old boy, and growing up I learned to serve the Mass. At first I never served with girls (my old church did ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Diocese of Palayamkottai in India launched its first altar server training program, teaching 1,570 children across five parishes more about the sacred role. With the support of the Diocese of ...

"Am I the only one who is like: wait, women aren't explicitly allowed to be lectors and altar servers before this?" Flora Tang wrote on Twitter Jan. 11. She was not, in fact, the only one. (For ...

Altar servers take part in a Good Friday service at a church in Gora Kalwaria, Poland, in this April 10, 2020, file photo. Being an altar server should be a “profession of faith” to the entire parish ...

Pope Francis greets a prelate and young people during a special audience with altar servers July 31 in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Credit: Claudio Peri/EPA via CNS.) Listen ROME — Christ’s ...

to her friends — is serving on the altar at St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception in Wilkes-Barre. Her reasons for becoming an acolyte are simple. “I feel safe here,” the Wilkes-Barre ...

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 ...

The Diocese of Palayamkottai in southern India encompasses the Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, and Tenkasi districts with a Catholic population of nearly 138,500. Altar servers attend a training session in ...