It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the Midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look up ...

At my church, The Church of the Good Shepherd in Holbrook, and Catholic churches around the world, kids can be a part of the Mass by becoming an altar server. An altar server’s job is to assist the ...

It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am ten years old and visiting relatives in the midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look ...

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 ...

Ever since starting to serve in 5th grade, altar serving has always held such a special place in my heart. Being up at the altar is something I believe very few people know the true specialness of. By ...

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 ...

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.

Clergy say that busy household schedules and Covid challenges are fuelling decline Being an altar server is now seen as ‘going against the grain’. Picture: Getty Fewer children are becoming altar ...

From left, Thea Rossi Barron, Emily Zickel and Michael Piehler join a Nov. 20 vigil to protest the exclusion of girl altar servers in many parishes of the Arlington, Va., diocese. (Ted Majdosz) ...