He was seven years old when he was first sexually assaulted by a man who was adored and respected by his family, by everyone ...

A defrocked Roman Catholic priest implicated himself in the 1972 slaying of a Massachusetts altar boy before dying at a hospital last week — saying he gave the boy a “good shove” before he ...

When Los Angeles police were investigating allegations of child abuse by a Roman Catholic priest in 1988, they asked for a list of altar boys at the last parish where the priest worked. Archbishop ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Roman Catholic church confirmed Tuesday that an altar boy was one of two minors killed by gunmen outside a church on Mexico’s Gulf coast.

ATLANTA — 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.

action news 4. michelle: two former altar boys are suing the roman catholic diocese of pittsburgh. kelly f.: of these two plaintiffs, one was only 11 years old, the other 13, when they joined the ...

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his ...

A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who said he was raped as a child in the 1960s by a now-deceased Roman Catholic bishop in Massachusetts has been settled, the sides announced Friday.

Roman Catholic leaders in Mexico have condemned the deity's connection to violence and the illicit drug trade. A statue of "Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte," or Our Lady of Holy Death, is ...

A Suffolk County man alleges he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest when he served as an altar boy in the Diocese of Brooklyn in the 1960s, according to a new lawsuit.

MEXICO CITY — The Roman Catholic church confirmed Tuesday that an altar boy was one of two minors killed by gunmen outside a church on Mexico’s Gulf coast.

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