Caritas Christi's handover deal fails
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The Archdiocese of Boston's tentative deal to hand over its troubled Caritas Christi Health Care system to Ascension Health of St. Louis collapsed yesterday after five months of research by Ascension showed the hospital chain was in worse financial shape than it expected, according to officials at competing hospitals and others familiar with the talks.
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A judge rejected a challenge to a transfer of property by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing to claim that the diocese was trying to protect its assets from alleged sex-abuse victims.
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By Frank E. Lockwood, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 16--When it severed ties with its denomination, Church of the Apostles forfeited more than its "Episcopal" label. It also gave up its buildings, its bank accounts, its furniture, even its name tags.
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Why EU-US talks on renewing a deal on the transfer of air passenger data collapsed.
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THE board of Dexia, the Franco-Belgian bank, yesterday unanimously rejected a proposed â¬37 billion (Â£26 billion) merger with Italyâs Sanpaolo, bringing an end to what would have been Europeâs biggest cross-border bank deal.
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By Aaron Nelsen ? The Brownsville Herald, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 24--Frustrated with declining interest and ineffective methods of recruiting young people to their order of Catholic teaching, the Marist Brothers took a leap of faith into the Digital Age.
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A judge Wednesday refused to save a Roman Catholic church where parishioners have staged a sit-in for the past two weeks to protest its closing by the archdiocese.
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IN a dramatic turn of events to the ill-fated Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)&#39;s fact-finding mission, the government on Tuesday night dumped the delegation at the Beitbridge border post, in defiance of a High Court order barring the
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Supporters of the bill were unable to convert a single House Republican who voted against the bill last month.
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Catholic leaders try to regain trust amid continuing lawsuits and financial challenges.
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Malaysia&#39;s highest court on Wednesday threw out a bid by a woman seeking to have her conversion to Christianity from Islam officially recognised.
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Competition Commissioner Mario Monti suffered an embarrassing defeat in a Luxembourg court this week - it ruled that his decision on the Sprint-Worldcom merger was illegal.
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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Sumitomo Trust &amp; Banking Co against a Tokyo High Court decision on Aug 11 lifting a ban imposed by the Tokyo District Court on UFJ including its trust bank unit in the merger talks.
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Two of Northern Ireland's church leaders have expressed disappointment that talks aimed at restoring devolved government have ended without a deal.
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TELEFÃNICA, the Spanish telecoms group, is understood to have rejected a bid of at least â¬2 billion (Â£1.4 billion) for its Endemol television production company, which is behind Big Brother.
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Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, part of the six-hospital Caritas Christi Health Care system being sold by the Archdiocese of Boston, has tapped William Bulger to help it raise money.
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VIENNA Austria backed away from a full privatization of its top telecommunications company after merger talks with Swisscom failed.