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Canadian surplus should help families
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Failure to reduce Canada's 17-per-cent child poverty rate over the past five years is creating a deficit that can't be erased by paying down government debt, say the authors of Campaign 2000's 2006 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty.
Trustee orientation session set
By Catholic Register StaffTORONTO - With the elections out of the way, Ontario's new Catholic trustees will be shown the ropes of their job Jan. 12-13 in Toronto.
Franciscan way goes mainstream
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - Following St. Francis into Advent starts with a concrete, physical, tangible, searingly real sense of the incarnation, according to Toronto-area Franciscans who will spend the four weeks leading up to Christmas doing things most Catholics do — preparing a Christmas crèche, attending Advent liturgies, singing carols and getting ready for the Feast of the Nativity.
Catholic tradition supports access to universal health care
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterRethinking the Crusades
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - The Crusades are widely seen as a barbaric series of wars led by a ruthless Catholic Church against peaceful inhabitants of the Holy Land, says Anthony Schratz, an amateur historian who has spent 20 years investigating controversies in church history.
Looking to Scriptures for answers to the Korean nuclear crisis
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThe Israelites of biblical times could never have predicted that a couple thousand years down the road nations would face off against each other with weapons that could kill hundreds of thousands all at once. But they did know about arms races, and they knew about the relationship of small nations with great empires.
Toronto School Board seeks creative solutions to financial woes
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register'Absolutely excellent times' for Catholic education
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterComplete list of Ontario School Board Trustees
By Vanessa Bertone, The Catholic RegisterA time to remember
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWhen Canada was a nation of just 11.3 million it saw 45,300 of its young men die in the Second World War, just one generation removed from the 66,665 men who died in the Great War.