National Catholic Register

Boys Only?

TOLEDO, Ohio — For 12-year-old Greg Metcalf, being an altar server is “a guy thing.” And he and his fellow servers at St. Joseph Parish here want to keep it that way. Although other parishes in the ...
National Catholic Reporter

As a girl, I couldn't be an altar server. Becoming one at 63 has been a gift.

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 ...
America Magazine

‘Be holy. Be original.’ Pope Francis gives advice to altar servers

Pope Francis greets altar servers during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) — Being an altar server should be a ...
Crux

U.S. altar servers bring tradition, heritage to Rome

Joseph Luu and Francis Tran, altar servers from the parish of Mary, Queen of Vietnam in New Orleans, Louisiana, wait to enter St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for an international meeting of altar ...