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Wed Nov 22, 4:14 PM GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for doing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison. Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also given nine months under house arrest and a year on...

EDMONTON (CP) - A fired executive with Alberta's addiction agency is under police investigation after the auditor general found he used false contracts to feed his gambling habit and lavish lifestyle. The auditor general revealed today that nearly $635,000 was diverted into five false...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Turkeys_Train.html Wednesday, November 22, 2006 · Last updated 2:23 p.m. PT Turkeys try to catch train out of N.J. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a security camera photo released by New Jersey Transit, a flock of wild turkeys...

By: Author Unknown Song of Solomon 8:6 -- Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. (NIV) As I sit here this morning writing, I look at the shirt I've chosen to wear. It has "Renewing the Heart" on the...

The Bread of Life 1. THE REAL PRESENCE Objection: "As for the Eucharist, no one believed that the bread and wine changed into the real body and blood of Christ until Paschasius Radbertus, a Benedictine monk in the early 9th century!" The Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist is the Body, Blood...

Harper's Quebec motion seen as potential step in plan to rebalance federalism Wed Nov 22, 10:24 PM By James Stevenson CALGARY (CP) - Attempting to recognize Quebec as a nation within Canada could be the first step in the Conservative government's campaign promise to re-balance federalism...

Aide says Pierre Trudeau would have supported Ignatieff's position on Quebec Wed Nov 22, 8:50 PM By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Michael Ignatieff received a blast Wednesday from one of Pierre Trudeau's sons, after a top aide suggested the late Liberal icon would have endorsed the leadership...

Police target organized crime in Montreal area and arrest more than 70 people Wed Nov 22, 5:43 PM By Peter Rakobowchuk MONTREAL (CP) - The arrest of 82-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto and other alleged top-ranking mobsters is a "significant blow" to organized crime in Montreal, says an author who...

The Dynamic Presence of Christ (Homily for the Feast of Corpus Christi) "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." (John 6:53) What are we to make of these stark words in the Gospel According to John, which have scandalized generations of...

CBC News Although most Canadians are living within their means, many renters are spending more than they're making on housing costs, a new Statistics Canada study says. The study measuring housing affordability found that 31 per cent of renters exceeded their budgets on shelter costs. By...

By Rob Crilly When the farming tribes of Darfur took up arms more than two years ago against what they saw as a neglectful Arab-dominated government, Samia Ahmed Nihar's brothers, uncles, and male cousins joined the struggle. But as a lecturer in development studies at Khartoum University in...

McDonald's clown gets boot from New Brunswick elementary classrooms Mon Nov 20, 12:25 PM FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick's Education Department has given the boot to the corporate clown in the big red shoes. Education officials say Ronald McDonald, the clown mascot for fast-food giant...

Pater noster qui es in caelis; sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie. Et dimmite nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a...

Some people construct a Christianity which consists entirely of a personal relationship to Jesus Christ and has virtually nothing to do with the church. Others make a grudging concession to the need for church membership, but add that they have given up the ecclesiastical institution as...

Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents (Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number. This list is sociological/statistical in perspective.) Christianity: 2.1 billion Islam: 1.3 billion...

USCCB passes guidelines to "gay" ministry "The nation's(USA) Roman Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved new guidelines Tuesday on outreach to gays, trying to support gay parishioners while strictly affirming the church stance that same-sex relationships are 'disordered.' "Gay Catholic...

Capitol Records Removes Evidence of the Beatles' Health Threatening Habits There will be no more pictures of the band members smokingBy: Entertainment News Staff In this ever–developing world of political correctness and health awareness, the big shots from Capitol Records are going a bit...

FEW LOVE THE CROSS OF JESUS JESUS has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear His cross. He has many who desire consolation, but few who care for trial. He finds many to share His table, but few to take part in His fasting. All desire to be happy with Him; few wish to...

Those advocating an end to Canada's constitutional monarchy (republicans) base their arguments on several weak arguments. These are the counter - arguments against these republican myths. MYTH #1 Our head of state is a British foreigner, who does not reside in Canada. This is the most common...

16 killed in bus bombing in east Baghdad By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb exploded in a minibus in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing 16 people and wounding 20, police said. if The bombing occurred shortly after midday in the predominantly Shiite...