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Monday is the deadline for attorneys to submit their suggested redactions to a 456-page investigation before a judge is expected to release it.

A state bill cleared a key Senate committee Friday to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the legal right to sue the church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.

State lawmakers are closer to settle the terms of their proposal to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the opportunity to sue the Catholic Church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.

With an order Friday from the courts, Marylanders are bracing for the release of an investigation into the history of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Circuit Judge Robert Taylor Jr.’s order said he will hear arguments later on whether to release the entire report at a later date.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, occurring 6 1/2 weeks before Easter.

The ramp agent was fired after he used personal days to attend Friday prayer services, including during a ”state of emergency” in December, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.

With the statute of repose, Maryland legislators granted the Catholic Church sweeping immunity from lawsuits — a constitutional protection they perhaps can’t take back.

A transgender man scheduled a hysterectonmy at a Catholic hospital in Towson and was told the night before the surgery it couldn't be performed because it went against the hospital's Catholic ethics.

It's been a half century since Liz Murphy and Linda Malat Tiburzi were raped and tortured by their teacher at the Catholic Community Middle School in South Baltimore. Yet their quest for justice is not over.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. will oversee proceedings regarding the release of an investigation detailing the “sexual abuse” and “physical torture” of more than 600 children and teens at the hands of 158 Catholic priests.

Citing state and federal rules that protect grand jury materials, a Baltimore judge ordered proceedings to remain secret in the legal effort to release an investigation into the history sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Baltimore.

Incoming Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown must take the steps needed to release the report on alleged sexual abuse by priests in the Baltimore Archdiocese, the Baltimore Banner’s public editor says. Judge Anthony Vittoria’s decision to block release of the report “undermined the public’s expectation of judicial fairness,” DeWayne Wickham says.

In a year when antisemitism in the United States is soaring, a community built on discriminatory practices came together to celebrate its Jewish residents.

Black representation brings vitality to Christmas celebrations and the worship experience in Baltimore this time of year, says Alanah Nichole Davis, who explains what Black Santa means to her.

Critics of the Catholic Church said the concessions don't go far enough to make things right for victims pursuing restitution

Hanukkah has special meaning for many in the local Jewish community in this time of increased antisemitism.

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Using chosen pronouns ”is a life-saving tool to protect the vulnerable,” a Baltimore pastor says.

The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.