Catholics, Courts and President Obama

The Anchoress, as always, has a good round up on the news of the 43 Catholic entities filing suit against the current administration regarding the HHS mandate. Notre Dame explains why all Americans should oppose the HHS mandate. Excerpts:

...This filing is about the freedom of a religious organization to live its mission, and its significance goes well beyond any debate about contraceptives. For if we concede that the Government can decide which religious organizations are sufficiently religious to be awarded the freedom to follow the principles that define their mission, then we have begun to walk down a path that ultimately leads to the undermining of those institutions. For if one Presidential Administration can override our religious purpose and use religious organizations to advance policies that undercut our values, then surely another Administration will do the same for another very different set of policies, each time invoking some concept of popular will or the public good, with the result these religious organizations become mere tools for the exercise of government power, morally subservient to the state, and not free from its infringements. If that happens, it will be the end of genuinely religious organizations in all but name...

On the stark censoring of the story from many of the major news networks and papers, Get Religion is always a good read.