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PARIS (AFP) - Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy emphatically won France's presidential election on Sunday, securing a clear mandate to carry out a programme of sweeping social and economic reforms. "I will not betray you, I will not lie to you, I will not disappoint you," Sarkozy told some 30,000...

Statements of the Fathers are not meant as a direct proof of doctrine since the patristic writings are not inspired Scripture nor in Catholic theology are the Fathers considered infallible as individuals. However, they ARE witnesses to the authentic Christian faith as it was handed down and...

JOAN BRYDEN Canadian Press OTTAWA — Stephen Harper's Conservatives raised almost 10 times more money from 10 times more donors than the Liberals in the first three months of 2007. Even the NDP — historically the poorest of the three main national parties — managed to raise twice as much...

CBC News A dispute between Edmonton taxi drivers and those with an out-of-town company that works out of the airport has lead to "vigilante style actions" on the streets, according to a city hall report. City drivers are claiming cabbies with Airport Taxi Service, which has picked up fares...

U.S. Cites Difficulty Deporting Detainees By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service LONDON -- More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are...

Network of volunteers and law enforcement agencies watches the chat rooms By Ian Holmes For the Times-Delta Kevin Richard House logged on to an online chat room to find some child pornography. Instead, he found his way into a prison cell. House, a Visalia resident, entered a chat...

“Canadian writers get as excited about trains as French writers do about sex,” wrote Silver Donald Cameron. No wonder, since the country owes its very existence to the railway. For most of human history, neither people nor goods could move any faster or in any greater bulk than the feet of...

"The pure white light generated by God's greatest masterpiece" With the current almost religious belief in privatization and the recent debate about selling off Ontario Hydro, it is timely to look back at a time when there was a very different view of what constituted the public good. At the...

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER SANTA ANA, Calif., April 25 — Anyone convicted of a crime knows a debt to society often must be paid in jail. But a slice of Californians willing to supplement that debt with cash (no personal checks, please) are finding that the time can be almost bearable. For...

DALLAS -- Olga Sanchez thought her 15-year-old son had stopped using "cheese," a heroin mixture making its way across the Dallas area.But this spring, Oscar Gutierrez's brother found him dead in bed."He was very purple. He was very cold, cold," said Sanchez, who had been attending drug...

by Jon Jakoblich "Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day." – God The third and final Commandment pertaining specifically to loving God with our total mind, heart and soul is also a commandment designed for us. It gives us an opportunity to rest, relax, regroup and talk to God. For the Jews...

Wichita, Kan. (AP) -- The food at the Sedgwick County jail is barely edible and disgusting to look at, according to two county commissioners who ate at the jail this week. Commissioners Gwen Welshimer and Kelly Parks ate at the jail Monday after receiving an anonymous tip about the food. They...

Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani is to visit Baghdad for talks on this week's international conference on Iraqi security, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday. "The visit of Mr Larijani is in the framework of bilateral relations. He will probably talk about security...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press At least two people were killed Sunday afternoon in a shooting at a shopping center, a fire official said. The shooting occurred shortly before 3:30 p.m. at the Ward Parkway shopping center, according to police. "We have at least two fatalities...

By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) -- Every Catholic can do something about climate change by adopting a life of voluntary simplicity, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio believes. It comes down to "working less, wanting less, spending less," thus reducing the impact each...

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Missionaries are the world's unsung heroes, dedicating their lives to the poor, sick and suffering in oftentimes remote or dangerous places, said the head of the Vatican office for overseeing the church's missionary activities. The...

By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Leaders of Catholic Charities USA were joined April 26 by two people who have received aid from their local Catholic Charities affiliates to ask Congress to cut poverty in half by the year 2020. Father Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities'...

TORONTO (CP) - One of this country's most respected environmentalists took his concerns about Ottawa's greenhouse gas strategy straight to the environment minister. David Suzuki confronted Environment Minister John Baird in the audience at an environmental consumer show in Toronto on Friday...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. (CP) - A police SWAT team has blocked off a road in Chilliwack, B.C., due to an apparent hostage-taking. Witnesses say armed officers have had the Comfort Inn in the Fraser Valley community, about 100 kilometres east of Vancouver, surrounded since last night. Radio...

By James Mccarten SPERWAN GHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Like any Canadian teenager, Mitcheal Small longs for an apartment of his own, a couch in front of a big-screen TV and his first car, despite the fact he doesn't yet have his driver's licence. Unlike others his age, however, Small's big...