altar boy

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Scorsese grew up in New York’s Little Italy as a Catholic altar boy and aspiring priest who was also fascinated by the mafiosos that loomed large in his community.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Born in Chicago in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

The plaintiff was an altar boy at Ascension Catholic Church in Chesterfield, Missouri.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023

I know the Latin Mass. I memorized the Latin Mass as an altar boy.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

P.J. liked going to Mass, serving as an altar boy for a time, but he didn’t find in church doctrine the answers to the philosophical questions he was already sorting through in his mind.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French