On the Square Today

Elizabeth Scalia on the convergence of conscience and command :

Recently, I asked a friend why he supports the administration’s “accommodated” mandate; he responded that the administration has now promised an eventual adjustment that will move the participation of the churches from a direct to indirect co-operation with evil, a theological subtlety that is already being debated. Catholics advocating the point are willing to overlook the elephant in the room: that the administration’s face-saving theological “nuance” still permits the subversion of the First Amendment, and the intrusion of the state into the conscience of the church.