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2 priests save 2 altar boys from drowning in sea but die in the effort
Two priests died on Friday, March 13, after saving two altar servers who were in danger of drowning off a…
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‘Everybody’s had it’: Backlash to Charlotte bishop’s ban of altar rails, kneelers
After delaying restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass for three months, Bishop Michael Martin said in a Sept. 26, 2025,…
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Cardinal presides over act of reparation in St. Peter’s following desecration of altar
The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which was desecrated on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Jorge Royan…
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Altar wine for Mass in Kenya now required to bear Catholic bishops’ ‘coat of arms’
Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba, has announced that bottles containing altar wine must…
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Man desecrates altar of St. Peter's Basilica
A view of St. Peter's Basilica during the Mass for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, with Bernini's baldachin and…
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Man attacks high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
Bernini’s famous baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Ricardo André Frantz/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2025…
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Sri Lankan cardinal mandates male-only altar servers in Colombo Archdiocese
Altar servers. / Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 22, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Sri Lankan…
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Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church reopens in the Holy Land, new altar dedicated
The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition cover the altar, just dedicated by the cardinal. The covering of the…
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Pope tells altar servers Jesus is with them in ‘that act of love which is the Eucharist’
Pope Francis greets tens of thousands of altar servers packed in St. Peter’s Square for a special audience on July…
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As new altar is consecrated at destroyed Iraq church, former parishioner recalls ‘wonderful days’
Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako presides over the dedication ceremony of the altar of the Church of Our Lady…
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