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 that the ...

Catholic parishes across Northern Virginia will be allowed for the first time to use girls and women as altar servers, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde said yesterday, leaving Lincoln, Neb., as the ...

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In 1985, when she was growing up in Everett, Cindy Leonard was becoming the faithful Catholic she remains to this day, one Sunday at a time. She attributes a large part of that to the fact that she ...

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 ...