(RNS) — Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has taken the lead in keeping women away from the altar. Last October, he decreed that there would be no female altar servers in his archdiocese. No matter ...

The most important news story in the past year for the U.S. Catholic Church has probably been the infighting among U.S. bishops about whether or not pro-choice politicians, like President Joe Biden, ...

Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has mandated that girls are not permitted to serve as altar servers in parishes within the Archdiocese of Colombo. “No girls should be invited to serve at the altar ...

For four years, the Liekhus sisters have done double duty at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. And when altar servers — Megan and Karen — move on to other church work in the next few months, it will be ...

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When Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino was a parish priest in Kalamazoo, Mich., he handled the issue of altar servers by using all girls one weekend, then all boys the next, he said. The ...

When I was a young girl attending Mass with my family at St. Mary's Catholic Church in the 1960s and '70s, I don't ever remember wanting to be an altar server. So the fact that I ended up becoming one ...

Despite the short notice, they were more than ready to make parish history yesterday at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Arlington. Emily Wallis held the lectionary open while the priest ...

Regarding the Nov. 20 Metro article "A question of equal rites": As a lifelong Catholic, I've always applauded change within the church when it contributed to the renewal of our faith. When the ...

Altar servers sing during Christmas Eve Mass at a church in Bonn, Germany, in this file photo. A prominent (Credit: Harald Oppitz/KNA via CNS.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis issued a new law formalizing ...