As soon as she was old enough, third-grader Ellen Clarke joined the first wave of girl altar servers, helping break up a club reserved for Roman Catholic boys for centuries. Seven years later, the ...

The Archdiocese of Hartford has agreed to pay a former altar boy $2.4 million to settle his claim that a priest sexually abused him more than 100 times over a five-year period in the 1980s. Father ...

Two Catholic priests have died after rescuing two altar boys from drowning during a retreat in coastal Ecuador.

Another member of the Guam Catholic Church was named for the first time in a lawsuit, involving allegations he sexually abused a Santa Rita altar boy more than 100 times from around 1955 to 1957. In ...

When she was a young girl, Logan Crotty dreamed of becoming a Catholic priest. She had always had an insatiable desire for intimacy with God and for a place of importance within God's mission, the ...