Blame it on those San Francisco values. That’s what the Rev. Joseph Illo believes is driving the uproar around his decision not to train girls to be altar servers at Star of the Sea Catholic Church.

ARLINGTON, Va. — America ’s second-to-last bastion of male-only altar servers has fallen. Arlington Bishop Paul Loverde has announced that women and girls will be allowed to serve at all Masses, ...

Catholic families in Arlington are planning to demonstrate Sunday afternoon against the decision made by some local churches to exclude girls from altar service. A report in Sunday's edition of The ...

What if knighthood were under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary and associated with a Marian shrine? That’s exactly what is happening at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wis.

Boys 10-15 years old wearing white Philippine shirts huddled at the entrance of a church in the northern Philippines, excited about making their "pledge of service" at morning Mass. They then headed ...

Altar societies, sometimes called altar guilds, are ministries of service, often taken for granted and under appreciated by those who don't know what all goes in to tending the beauty, peace and ...