Religion

The escalating conflict is stoking anxiety among Marylanders with ties to the region.

A shooting that injured five young people during homecoming week at Morgan State University should serve as a call to action for an entire community, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Judge also grants archdiocese request to continue paying salaries and benefits to employees and conduct routine financial business.

Archbishop William E. Lori said church leaders had weighed their options for months this summer before concluding that Chapter 11 bankruptcy was inevitable.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. last month ruled that redactions could be lifted for 43 of 46 names that were blacked out in the interim report, which came out on April 5.

The cathedral had removed the old windows after Confederate symbols featured prominently in recent racist violence.

Here’s a breakdown of what the Archdiocese’s bankruptcy proceeding could look like.

Family, friends and church members remembered Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain this month, at a service Sunday at Greater Grace Church in East Baltimore.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. ruled that the Maryland Office of the Attorney General cannot release a new version of the report, unless otherwise directed, before Sept. 26.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor ordered the attorney general’s office may release a copy of the report with the redactions lifted next month.

LGBTQ community members in Maryland said they are stunned and disappointed by the Maryland Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling, which exposed a loophole in Maryland laws originally meant to protect employees against discrimination.

A series of investigative news stories identified church figures whose names were redacted from the investigative report.

Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.

Closed-door hearings in Baltimore Circuit Court will decide whether the final details will be revealed in the report on child sex abuse within the archdiocese.

Some 39 of the names were first revealed in the attorney general’s report on the history of sex abuse within the church.

Flannery and Liam Gallagher, the children of Frank X. Gallagher Jr., say that after the abuse their father “experienced extreme emotional distress” and began experimenting with drugs and engaging in compulsive and risky sexual encounters.

Former and current members have a chance to contribute their personal stories about the church, which is recording its rich history.

Lange founded the country’s first African American religious order in Baltimore.

The Baltimore Banner has taken strides in its first year to bring a new and original voice to local journalism, but challenges remain to successfully depart from the approaches of old-school newsrooms, Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says.

With the identification of the late Philadelphia nun, all the names have been unmasked in the attorney general report.