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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say in this morning\u2019s Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused on Jan. 20 to broaden the exception to\"\"<\/a> its mandate that nearly all Catholic employers must cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their health-care plans.<\/p>\n

An \u201caccommodation\u201d offered Friday by the White House did not solve the problem. Instead, it triggered withering criticism from legal scholars such as Notre Dame\u2019s Carter Snead, Harvard\u2019s Mary Ann Glendon, Princeton\u2019s Robert George, and Catholic University of America president John Garvey, along with non-Catholic scholars including Yuval Levin, the religious liberty law firm the Becket Fund, and numerous Catholic and other organizations.<\/p>\n

Many Catholics are confused and angry. They should be.<\/p>\n

Quite a few Catholics supported President Obama in the last election, so the ironies here are bitter. Many feel betrayed. They\u2019re baffled that the Obama administration would seek to coerce Catholic employers, private and corporate, to violate their religious convictions.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s clear that such actions are developing into a pattern. Whether it was the administration\u2019s early shift toward the anemic language of \u201cfreedom of worship\u201d instead of the more historically grounded and robust concept of \u201cfreedom of religion\u201d in key diplomatic discussions; or its troubling effort to regulate religious ministers recently rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court in the\u00a0Hosanna Tabor<\/em> case; or the revocation of the U.S. bishops\u2019 conference human-trafficking grant for refusing to refer rape victims to abortion clinics, it seems obvious that this administration is \u2013 to put it generously \u2013 tone deaf to people of faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say in this morning\u2019s Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused on Jan. 20 to broaden the exception to its mandate that nearly all Catholic employers must cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their health-care plans. 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