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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The heroic actions of a Nashville pastor and several of his parishioners likely saved a church from violence Sunday afternoon. Metro police reported 26-year-old Dezire ...

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A lot of American Catholics might not see the importance of Pope Francis’ declaration that women can take part in the formal ministries of acolyte and lector. After all, there have been “altar girls” ...

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 ...

A former Massachusetts pastor was indicted Monday on child rape charges involving an altar boy, officials said.Francis Strahan, 89, was indicted by a Middlesex grand jury on one count of rape of a ...

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 ...

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 ...