Bishops plan to use London Olympics to renew interest in Catholic faith

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By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- British bishops plan to use the 2012 London Olympic Games to renew interest in the Catholic faith, with initiatives ranging from fighting human trafficking and homelessness

HHS move amounts to 'to hell with you,' bishop says as protests mount

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By Nancy Frazier O'Brien, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told individuals and institutions who oppose contraception "to hell with you," as one bishop put it,

Sisters of Providence Health System announces new laboratory collaboration

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Staff report
SPRINGFIELD – The Sisters of Providence Health System (SPHS) has announced that New England Pathology Associates, P.C. (NEPA)

Vatican downplays charges of financial 'corruption'

By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Insisting on the Holy See's continuing commitment to transparency and rectitude in economic affairs, the Vatican's spokesman downplayed references to "corruption" in a letter apparently sent to Pope Benedict XVI by a Vatican official who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States.