All Talk Margaret O’Brien Steinfels’s critique of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ refusal to accept the various forms of accommodation in the Department of Health and Human Services contraception-coverage mandate ignores a key point (“A Losing Strategy,” May 4). The incredibly narrow definition of a “religious employer,” which Steinfels herself criticizes, remains exac (...)
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The contraception mandate, migrant workers, the new missal
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Sister Mary Ann, it's not either-or. Just because an institution is not Catholic, that doesn't mean it's atheist. You and the USCCB may have a point to make about the mandate, but such overwrought language doesn't help your cause.