As soon as she was old enough, third-grader Ellen Clarke joined the first wave of girl altar servers, helping break up a club reserved for Roman Catholic boys for centuries. Seven years later, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV has, for the first time since becoming pontiff, offered a glimpse into his childhood, recalling his early days in ...

Although our paths never crossed, John Starkey and I both attended St. Jerome’s Catholic Church as children. I was a misfit parishioner, a kid with no keen spirituality who squirmed through weekly ...

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FILE - Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff Thursday, recalling that from the age of six he used to get up early to serve as an altar boy at ...