Kidsday reporter Rose Smyth as an altar server at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Commack. Credit: Smyth family. By Rose SmythKidsday Reporter February 2, 2018. Share.

While denying altar server duties to girls, the diocese offers “an abundance of (other) activities and undertakings for girls to help them in their spiritual and apostolic lives,” Huber said.

"Am I the only one who is like: wait, women aren't explicitly allowed to be lectors and altar servers before this?" Flora Tang wrote on Twitter Jan. 11.. She was not, in fact, the only one.

The Revs. Joe Palermo and Thien Nguyen recognized the altar servers of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Metairie for their service recently. Chosen as this year's outstanding altar server is ...