Recently Sts. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix, Ariz., changed its policy on altar servers. From now on only boys may serve; girls may apply for jobs as sacristans. Why? The rector of the ...

A Vatican court on Tuesday sentenced a priest to prison for sexually abusing a fellow student while attending a youth seminary whose members worked as altar servers for the pope, multiple news ...

Clergy say that busy household schedules and Covid challenges are fuelling decline Being an altar server is now seen as ‘going against the grain’. Picture: Getty Fewer children are becoming ...

A man who is thought to be Jersey’s longest-serving altar server has celebrated 70 years of service in the church. John Journeuax started when he was 10-years-old at St Luke’s Church in 1954.

John Journeuax said it had been a "privilege" to be able to serve the church for so long A man who is thought to be Jersey’s longest-serving altar server has celebrated 70 years of service in ...