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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A driver led deputies on a meandering 45-minute pursuit from Jamul to a South Bay church on Thursday where he interrupted a funeral service before being taken into custody at the altar. The chase ...

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 ...