Influential Roman Catholics gathered at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. April 19 to participate in the 8th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. The event attracted hundreds of priests, monks, nuns, other clergy, and committed laymen. Speakers offered a resounding call for the preservation of religious freedom and Christian witness in the public square. Most prominent in everyone’s concerns was the Obama administration’s HHS mandates for religious organizations to provide insurance for contraceptives and controversial abortifacients, both of which transgress Catholic church teaching and have forced a showdown between Roman bishops and the executive branch.

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