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Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Ad Hoc Committtee for Religious Liberty, speaks at a news conference Tuesday (July 2) at the National Press Club in Washington. He helped spearhead an open letter by faith leaders who consider the Obama administration’s contraception mandate a threat to religious freedom. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks

(RNS2-july1) Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Ad Hoc Committtee for Religious Liberty, speaks at a news conference Tuesday (July 2) at the National Press Club in Washington. He helped spearhead an open letter by faith leaders who consider the Obama administration’s contraception mandate a threat to religious freedom. For use with RNS-CONTRACEPTION-FREEDOM, transmitted on July 1, 2013, RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks.