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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...