Commonweal's Symposium and Next Week's USCCB Mtg

Commonweal's Symposium and Next Week's USCCB Mtg by MSW.  MGB: The constitutional issue of the mandate itself has already been settled, twice, in federal court in regard to an identical state mandate in New York.  The power to treat individual Catholic entities as something other than a monolith controlled by the bishops (because essentially, they are not) is simply common sense.  The line must be drawn somewhere or else Blue Cross becomes a religious group for the purpose of dealing with these mandates.  As far as the institutional freedom of the Church - it must be recognized that they are not really fighting a governmental decision, but a decision regarding the insitutional freedom of doctors to provide the care that they think best to women.  Any analysis that ignores the fact that the madate is first a medical determination, rather than a feminist project in the HHS Office of Civil Rights, is missing the flavor of what is really going on.