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 ...

Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church in Little Rock is holding a service Friday for married couples who were denied a traditional church wedding, giving them the opportunity to have their unions ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- An unhoused man in San Jose is fighting to keep his Dia de los Muertos altar up after Caltrans reportedly threatened to take it down. The altar is in honor of his service dog ...

John Lennon said, "When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps." Those who ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco's Roman Catholic archbishop is upholding a ban on altar girls imposed by a local pastor. The ban applies to Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco's Richmond ...

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 ...

An altar server had an up-close look as vandals destroy a treasured church relic in front of the entire congregation Sunday. Sam Noblit was sitting in the front row pew Sunday morning during mass at ...

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, ...

Scratch the altar boys. Bring on the altar servers. The head of the Allentown Diocese has approved the use of girls as altar servers, officially breaking a tradition that dates to the Catholic ...

When Lindsay Van Vynckt’s Catholic parish invited girls to become altar servers a year ago, she signed up immediately. Over the last year the 10-year-old girl has practically become a fixture in the ...