Religion

It didn’t take long for the members of the 74th Baltimore City Council — they took their oaths of office 5 hours before Thursday night’s meeting, their first — to have a big debate.

It would be too simple to characterize the dispute over the Levines’ Hanukkah lights as a neighborhood squabble.

A former member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Fells Point shares memories of fondness ... and dismay.

This mass was six months in the making, marking the merger of five parishes into one congregation.

The closure of St. Ann’s Catholic Church has hit members of the predominantly Black congregation hard, including Ralph Moore, who is ready to leave the church altogether.

More than a dozen parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will celebrate their final Mass this weekend, part of a yearslong process of consolidation.

There are places that become part of us, and places where part of us of remains. Corpus Christi, one of dozens of Baltimore-area Catholic parishes set to close at the end of the month, is that kind of place for my family.

Trans and nonbinary people can struggle to find clothes that fit their bodies, their gender expression and their budget, but the Skylight Boutique is a thrift store stocked with items that are often difficult and expensive to obtain.

Polls show a majority of white Catholics support Trump.

Women who possessed special knowledge, such as midwives or herbalists, were more likely to be accused of witchcraft, as were women in need, including widows and beggars.

Lawyers for the Seventh-day Adventist Church are arguing that the First Amendment allows it to ask employees to “uphold their religious beliefs.”

At least 1,200 Israeli civilians were killed and 250 kidnapped by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, while more than 41,500 Gazans have died after an Israeli offensive. Here is what three friends brought together by the conflict think a year later.

Rev. Cecelia Williams Bryant was a mentor and leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She died on Sept. 26 at age 77.

Archdiocese of Baltimore has made official the closure of more than half the Catholic churches in city, nearby suburbs.

Greater Grace officials announced that they had selected an evangelical nonprofit, GRACE, to lead an independent investigation of sexual abuse in the church.

Wallace Lane’s mother’s car burst in flames shortly after she parked it after church a few months ago. She and his sister had just left the vehicle.

Jenkins, who grew up in Eastern Maryland died in 2021, had been a member of the Nation of Islam until 1978, when he founded the separate United Nation of Islam.

Former members of Greater Grace World Outreach were shunned after leaving the controversial megachurch. For many, it took decades to build a new life outside.

John Heizer has played the Sunday service at the historic Zion Church of the City of Baltimore since 1974.

Ayman Nassar said he withdrew from Maryland's hate crime commission after an “online harassment and smear campaign was launched” against him.