UNITED STATES
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BY JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 10:17 a.m., Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Catholic prelates around the country have mounted the bully pulpit against what local Catholic Archbishop J. Peter Sartain calls “threats to religious freedom in this country” and religion “being pushed out of discussion in the public square.”

The bishops’ crosier rattling may turn into the latest case of clerical error.

As its pundits railed at the Obama administration last week, Fox News released an eye-opening poll: By a 61-34 percent margin, Americans approved of the administration’s requiring all employee health plans to provide birth control coverage as part of health care for women. …

A full decade has passed since the Boston Globe first exposed priest pedophilia in the Archdiocese of Boston and the practice of shipping “problem” priests from parish to parish without advance warning.

Initially, the church hierarchy blamed the…