The Battle of the Servers drew more than 500 servers and dozens of chaperones to St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax July 25.

Pope Francis greets tens of thousands of altar servers packed in St. Peter’s Square for a special audience on July 30. (photo: National Catholic Register / Vatican Media) Kristina Millare/CNA ...

Pope Francis celebrated a liturgy with tens of thousands of altar servers packed in St. Peter’s Square for a special audience on Tuesday evening, reminding them that Jesus Christ is always ...

Now it turns out one of those stones—the 6-ton altar stone at the center of the prehistoric monument—came all the way from the northernmost tip of Scotland some 430 miles away, much farther ...

In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ring of giant rocks that the wizard Merlin magically transported from Mount Killaurus, in Ireland, to Salisbury Plain, a chalk ...

Researchers on Wednesday revealed that the long-mysterious “Altar Stone” at the heart of Stonehenge came from faraway Scotland, raising tantalizing new questions about how — and why — a ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, demonstrates that the iconic 6-ton "Altar Stone" likely came from what is now northeast Scotland—at the opposite end of the island of Great Britain ...

WASHINGTON — The ancient ritual meaning of Stonehenge is still a mystery, but researchers are one step closer to understanding how the famous stone circle was created. The unique stone lying ...

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely transported over 435 miles (700 kilometers) from what’s now northeastern Scotland ...

But a new study of the Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the horseshoe-shaped monument, suggests that it traveled a great distance to get there. A mineral analysis found that the stone ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge's central sandstone slab — long called the "altar stone" — came from much-closer Wales. But a study last year by some of the ...