Local Catholics attending Mass on Sunday will still hear Cardinal Francis George take issue with President Barack Obama’s controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite the president’s “compromise.”
The letter from George to be read at all Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago is dated Feb. 5.
But it has not been updated even after the president on Friday backed down from his stance asking all employers including organizations tied to religious groups to pay for insurance plans that included free birth control coverage.
The archdiocese on Saturday said George asked late Friday to make sure parishes and pastors read the same letter, with no changes.
