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BBC News China does not recognise the Pope's authority China has named a new Catholic bishop in a move likely to increase tension with the Vatican. Father Wang Renlei will be ordained on Thursday, a Chinese official said. China and Rome do not have diplomatic relations and in May the...

By Dennis Bueckert OTTAWA (CP) - For the second time this month, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has cancelled an appearance at a parliamentary committee on global warming, leaving critics to suggest the government is in disarray on the issue. Ambrose was to appear before the House of...

By Jennifer Graham REGINA (CP) - They're an unlikely group of calendar centrefolds - one owns a pharmacy and another a grocery store - but these pinups have come together to raise awareness about a pressing issue: potholes. Eleven men and one woman from Leader, Sask., have bared all in the...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A young South African has been fined by a local court for playing hooky from work and trying to cover it with a fake gynaecologist's certificate attesting he was pregnant and needed a week off. A magistrate's court in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, fined 27-year-old...

Larry Taylor.Rolling Stone Magazine BACKGROUND HISTORY: The first musical bands originated in New Orleans among black musicians who have traditionally been the innovators. The first jazz record ever recorded was by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917, and of course they were white because...

Woman with 'peace wreath' won't be fined after all By Robert Weller, Associated Press DENVER — A subdivision has withdrawn its threat of $25 daily fines against a homeowner who put a Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign on the front of her home. Homeowner Lisa Jensen told The Associated...

Beatles producer Sir George Martin has received an honourary doctorate in music. Fondly referred to as "the fifth Beatle" for his work with the Fab Four, the 80-year-old was honoured by Leeds Metropolitan University for his services to the music world. The accolade comes after he was inducted...

Written by Catholic News Agency (CNA) Archbishop says public leaders, who claim to be Catholic but do not act on Gospel, are deceiving themselves HARRISBURG - Political and community leaders are called to change the world with justice and charity, and with a greater love for God than for...

Written by Catholic News Agency (CNA) VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Vatican's Prefect of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, reportedly sent a letter to Church prelates worldwide, instructing them to adjust the translation of a phrase...

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Emphasizing that they were addressing all Catholics, and not just politicians or any other group, the U.S. bishops Nov. 14 voted in favor of a document calling on those in a state of serious sin to refrain from receiving...

By Bill Graveland KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Chief Warrant Officer Robert (Bobby) Girouard once helped other soldiers cope with mourning for fallen comrades before getting them battle ready again. Cpl. Albert Storm mused about retirement the day before he died. Both were killed Monday when...

"Become like unto me", says the Lord. Be Holy as I am Holy. (Leviticus 11:44) According to the Venerable Maria of Agreda (c1600), in revelations from Our Lady in "the Mystical City of God", these were the first words that the Incarnate Word of God spoke to his mother Mary when He first looked at...

By ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan. Some residents who have complained have...

The typical price of a house in Toronto is $356,423 -- check out what that gets you here and across the country Nancy LePatourelNational Post When I moved to Toronto almost 10 years ago, housing prices shocked me. Many of my friends back in Calgary were buying starter homes for well under...

Tobacco promotion must go: Health unit Trevor WilhelmWindsor Star Monday, November 27, 2006 Soubhi Assi said he's put up with a lot over the last few months, but when the health unit started messing with his Indian, he drew the line. Assi, who owns the Downtown Smoke Shop, said health unit...

"What the world needs is a voice that is right not when the world is right, but a voice that is right when the world is wrong." Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

I am not a great beer drinker, but when I do drink it I rather like Labatt's Blue. So, I guess that would be my favourite...

Thu Nov 23, 5:46 PM TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP) - Two newly christened city councillors in Ontario are breathing easy after securing their jobs in unorthodox fashion. After Dave Oliphant won an East Zorra-Tavistock council seat by just one vote on election night, a recount was held and he ended...

By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer Zach Plante is close with his parents — he plays baseball with them and, on weekends, helps with work in the small vineyard they keep at their northern California home. Lately, though, his parents have begun to notice subtle changes in their son. Among other...

NHL, Leafs give flick full support Due out in theatres next December Nov. 24, 2006. 08:23 AM <>RANDY STARKMAN SPORTS REPORTER The appearance of the first gay Toronto Maple Leaf will be groundbreaking, even if it is only in celluloid.Actor Tom Cavanaugh plays a gay ex-Leaf in a comedy film...