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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.

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.

Maryland lawmakers have considered — but not approved — eliminating time limits entirely for future suits brought by victims of past sexual abuse.

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