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The Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sex abuse in the Catholic Church implicated the former archbishop of Baltimore for covering up the abuse. It’s not the first time scandals within the Catholic Church have reached Baltimore.

By Jean Marbella

Aug 24, 2018

Maryland's attorney general needs to fully investigate Baltimore archdiocese's handling of child molestation cases.

An explosive grand jury report on pervasive child abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania has called into question the actions — or inactions — of late Baltimore Cardinal William H. Keeler, who previously was hailed for his transparency in handling abuse cases.

By Pamela Wood

Aug 14, 2018

Solving mystery of nun's death requires full cooperation from Baltimore archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has responded to the creator of a petition that urged the release of personnel files of the priest at the center of “The Keepers” documentary.

By Alison Knezevich

Sep 16, 2017

An online petition on change.org has more than 11,000 signatures urging church officials to make public its files on A. Joseph Maskell, who died in 2001.

By Alison Knezevich

Jul 1, 2017

Jean Hargadon Wehner keeps her guard up when she leaves her home.

By Alison Knezevich

Jun 28, 2017

Public health officials in Ireland say they are reviewing services delivered by the late Catholic priest in the Netflix series "The Keepers," who worked as a psychologist there after leaving Baltimore in the 1990s amid sexual abuse allegations.

By Alison Knezevich

Jun 6, 2017

We moved from Baltimore to a small suburb in Pennsylvania when I was 7 years old. I remember the day my mom enrolled me in public school. I was upset. I wanted to go to Catholic school like my friends and cousins back in Maryland. Today, I understand. My mother is one of the women featured in the latest Netflix crime saga "The Keepers." She was sexually abused by A. Joseph Maskell, the former chaplain at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, and a string of other men to whom Maskell gave

This was already going to be a bittersweet spring at The Seton Keough High School. The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced in October that it would be closing

By Jonathan M. Pitts

May 25, 2017

Richard Sipe, the former priest who spent 25 years studying the sexual behavior of the Catholic clergy, appears in “The Keepers,” the Netflix documentary series

By Dan Rodricks

May 25, 2017

With Netflix's "The Keepers" documentary series on the unsolved killing of Baltimore nun Sister Catherine Cesnik debuting Friday, we chronicle developments in

DNA evidence from a priest whose remains were exhumed does not match crime-scene evidence from the unsolved killing of Baltimore nun Sister Catherine Ann

By Alison Knezevich

May 17, 2017

Donna Von Den Bosch climbed to the attic of her home so she could watch the footage alone. The images flashed on her computer screen: the police car, the churches, the priests. Her heart raced. "I'm 60," she told herself, again and again. "I'm not 15 anymore."

By Alison Knezevich

May 12, 2017

The old man sat on a metal folding chair in his Essex garage. His big right hand reached out to a wooden table, to a faded police autopsy photo lying there.

The body of a priest who died in 2001 has been exhumed as part of the investigation into the slaying of a Baltimore nun more than 40 years ago, Baltimore County police say.

By Alison Knezevich

May 4, 2017

Secrets within secrets, crimes upon crimes, layers upon layers and journeys within journeys. That's the way documentary filmmaker Ryan White talks about his Netflix docuseries "The Keepers," which revisits the unsolved murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik, a Baltimore nun who went missing in 1969.

By David Zurawik

Apr 21, 2017

The Rev. A. Joseph Maskell, who left his Elkridge parish July 31 to seek psychological treatment in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused high school

The caretaker-gravedigger of Holy Cross Cemetery, fired from his job of nearly four years by a Roman Catholic priest shortly before Christmas, has been ordered