SHELBURNE — Olivia Halle has heard all the arguments against female altar servers. She has heard that girls will just distract boys (“Mind you, I’m wearing an alb from head to toe,” she says) and that some kids will get the wrong idea, and assume that if girls can assist at Mass, they can someday become priests.

“It’s definitely the pastor’s duty to sit the boys and girls down and to let the girls know they can never be priests. I didn’t have a problem with that,” says Olivia, who grew up in the White Mountain town of Shelburne.

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