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This Week in Origins

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Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 39, No. 35 (Feb. 11, 2010):

-- Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany N.Y., urges U.S. officials to adopt a long-term comprehensive strategy on Haiti.

-- The opening of the Winter Olympics Feb. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, could bring a rise in human trafficking because of prostitution, warns a Canadian bishops' commission.

-- Human freedom does not legitimate bad moral choices, says San Francisco's Archbishop George H. Niederauer in response to comments by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

-- The U.S. bishops' conference urges Congress to put aside partisan divisions and enact health care reform.

-- The costs of not enacting health care reform this year are "too dire" to permit that to happen, says Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas offers contemporary Catholic universities a model for integrating faith and reason, says Archbishop J. Michael Miller, of Vancouver, British Columbia.