Four Republican presidential candidates participated in a Dec. 6 debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama seeking to increase their support as their party’s first contests in the primary process are scheduled next month.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Hispanic Ministry welcomed participants to a weekend dedicated to reflection and cultivating leadership at its Hispanic Youth Ministry Retreat Nov. 17.

“The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.

The Catholic High School of Baltimore has been crowned the best private high school for girls in Baltimore by Baltimore Style magazine for the second time, marking a significant milestone in the school’s 85-year history.

A pro-family campaign group has warned that a proposed March referendum in Ireland to amend the country’s constitution would be a “further downgrading of the importance of marriage to society.”