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 outlets ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks to altar servers from France during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 25, 2025. More than 350 altar servers from 18 French dioceses took part in the pilgrimage.

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.

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka, during an audience with pilgrims from Sri Lanka after a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 8, 2014. (Credit: Paul ...