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Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that harmony built...

Humanity is experiencing a new loneliness; it is not in the face of a hostile nature which it has taken centuries to subdue, but in an anonymous crowd which surrounds men and women and in which they feel themselves to be strangers. Urbanization, undoubtedly an irreversible stage in the...

Janis Lyn Joplin was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970. In between she led a triumphant and tumultuous life blessed by an innate talent to convey powerful emotion through heart-stomping rock-and-roll singing. Born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas, a small Southern petroleum industry...

GENEVA (AFP) - More than 50,000 people ordered tickets for Euro 2008 on the first day of sales, boosting demand to levels more than 10 times higher than the last European championship finals in 2004, organisers said Friday. Some 53,978 applications have been received since the first batch of...

TORONTO (CP) - A police investigation is underway into a suspected tampering of Christie Chewy Chunks Ahoy! cookies that are being recalled. Kraft Canada Inc. recently received several reports from customers who found small, sharp metal objects in select packages of cookies. The company...

Canadian Press MONTREAL - A Montreal woman who used fondue fuel to set her late boyfriend's penis on fire has been sentenced to four years in prison. The Crown says taking into account time already served, Andree Rene will have to remain incarcerated for another 30 months. Crown...

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has will to entrust the entire order of mercy to you. I, N..., a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to...

OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday. "I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate...

The teenage daughter of a woman charged with second-degree murder died as a result of strangulation, Calgary police said Wednesday. The body of Aminat Magomadova, 14, was found Monday in her family's Fay Road home in the city's southeast. Her 36-year-old mother, Aset Magomadova, is charged...

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming. About 3,000 children will build snowmen in Oslo...

By Ariel David ROME (AP) - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St. Peter's Basilica Saturday for the first match of the Clericus Cup, a tournament...

Designer Julien Macdonald has declared war on animal lovers protesting against his use of fur in London Fashion Week. Some onlookers were shocked to see his autumn collection relied heavily on different types of fur - even to create an entire dress. But he remained unrepentant, saying...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt Heavenly Father, Almighty God. Father, Abba. I acknowledge that you have created me. I am so happy to know that you are my Father and I am your son / daughter. Powerful Lord, God and Saviour; I honour you, I am fulfilled coming before you. I humble myself...

By CRYSTAL HARMON TIMES WRITER Bay County Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran ruled Friday that even though Michigan law does not explicitly define sex with a dead dog as a crime, charges against a Saginaw man will stand. Sheeran set a trial date of May 8 for the trial, when Ronald E. Kuch, 45, of...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Opposition parties joined forces Tuesday to vote down the extension of two controversial anti-terrorism measures, ending an acrimonious political battle rife with accusations of dirty politics. But the debate over national security vs. civil liberties is sure to...

By Sara Bonisteel NEW YORK — Two artists stirred up some anger with McDonald's (MCD) last week after marketing a golden replica of a Mickey D's coffee stirrer once popular among drug users. McDonald's recently learned of the piece, titled "Cokespoon No. 2," and demanded that the company...

"Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Phophet`s Paradise to come: Ah, take the Cash, and let the Promise go, Nor heed the rumble of the distant Drum!" "Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your winter- garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time had...

by Kahlil Gibran Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And he answered saying: It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, That you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and...

By Chris Morris MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn says Canada will push back against negative messages about the annual East Coast seal hunt, but it will not back down. Some processors attending a New Brunswick fisheries meeting on Saturday said they are worried...

By Andy Blatchford LAVAL, Que (CP) - Parti Quebecois Leader Andre Boisclair found himself defending his party's sovereigntist intentions Saturday after the PQ dropped the word "referendum" from its campaign platform. The platform, unveiled Saturday in a hotel north of Montreal, calls for a...