The Roman Catholic church has confirmed that an altar boy was one of two minors killed outside a church on Mexico’s Gulf ...

A former altar boy who claims he was raped dozens of times by a priest is suing the Catholic church. Jim Lawn told the BBC he was repeatedly raped and beaten over a two-year period in the 1970s by ...

O’Rourke, who died in 1998, was later accused in a lawsuit of repeatedly sexually abusing an altar boy at Corpus Christi Church in Woodside, where he worked in the 1960s. Garcia — who would ...

Prayers at the Graveside Aside from the time of mourning, the month of November, including especially All Saints' day and All Souls' day, is a traditional time for visiting graves, as is the ...

Photo: Shen Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/AFP via Getty Images During weekly Shabbat services at my synagogue, we recite a prayer for the well-being of the United States and for the leaders who ...

The abuse took place between 2007 and 2012 in the Pius X Pre-Seminary, which houses altar boys who serve Mass in St Peter's Basilica, sometimes for the pope, and are thinking of becoming priests.

ROME — A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of corrupting a minor when he served as an altar boy for the pope within the walls of the Holy See, handing down a 2½-year prison ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles and saw people from all over Mexico honoring their dead that I built my first Día de Muertos altar 13 years ago. Now, it is an annual rite I practice ...

They get to know each other while serving as altar boys, become friends and decide to form their own gang with themselves as leaders.

A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure ... She, another woman and a boy were shot dead Friday as they prepared the ...

A bride who was left at the altar managed to keep smiling through one of “the most painful days” of her life, sharing the ...