In 1992, the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts permitted female altar servers. In a letter dated April 12, 1994 from the Congregation of Worship and the Discipline of the ...

She became the first female Eucharistic minister at Mayport Naval Base Catholic Church. She was the director of the altar servers and championed for girls to be servers. She also taught weekly ...

Another group of four orphaned teens — Arc, Refia, Luneth, and Ingus — are drawn to a crystal of light in the Altar Cave after ... the first to feature an all-female cast and have multiple ...

While progress is being made, it is not without opposition. In Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith recently banned female altar servers, citing traditionalist views (see HERALD, Jan 5, 2025 ? pg 10).

Hope Dickson – a senior at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. – was recently named as one of 10 ...

Isabelle Owen speaks to Martin McAloon of Prefab Sprout about growing up in Durham, his experience in the band, and his relationship with his brother.

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground, according to the Italian news ...