Catholic church investigation

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

In a letter circulated Thursday, the Attorney General's Office concluded with the strongest words yet that it could defend a vote by lawmakers to repeal immunity given to the church and other institutions against child sex abuse lawsuits.

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

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.

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

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.

It’s been a little over five years since “The Keepers” miniseries debuted on Netflix, shocking viewers with allegations of extreme sexual abuse in the late ’60s and early ’70s at Archbishop Keough, a Catholic all-girls school in Baltimore County. The women who shared their stories in “The Keepers” talk about their hopes for the upcoming Maryland Attorney General’s report into sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Anthony Vittoria ordered the case sealed on Friday. His ruling means all hearings will be closed to the public and all legal motions will be confidential.

Lawyers for the women featured in the 2017 documentary series file motion to support the disclosure of the 456-page state investigation.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will not oppose the release of a nearly four-year investigation into child sexual abuse, church leaders said in a detailed statement released Tuesday evening.

Among the 153 parishes and missions of Baltimore’s archdiocese, some grappled this weekend with how to address the sex abuse investigation.

Survivors of priest abuse are bracing for a legal fight over the release of the Maryland Attorney General’s 456-page report into 80 years of sexual abuse.

State officials are seeking to release a 456-page investigation of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore over 80 years that identifies 158 priests who are said to have abused more than 600 victims.

But investigators say that they will not release the names of 13 living priests facing newly discovered abuse allegations.

Attorney General Brian Frosh is seeking court approval to release the 456-page report, which documents 80 years of child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.