Girls at the altar By MARK NIESSE Associated Press In some Catholic parishes the majority of 'altar boys' are girls 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. Seven years later, the 15-year-old is still serving, but now she's surrounded by other girls helping out priests and deacons on Sundays at Atlanta's Our Lady of the Assumption church. Altar serving has become so popular with girls that they outnumber the boys in many parishes. That's exactly...
