Archbishop Gregory Aymond this weekend will issue a relatively rare pulpit letter urging tens of thousands of Mass-going Catholics to pray, brief themselves and write Congress protesting a new federal rule requiring Catholic employers to provide health insurance coverage for birth control and other reproductive services the church finds objectionable. Aymond’s letter, which he asked to be read or circulated in 108 parishes, is part of Catholic bishops’ immediate push-back to the new rule, being implemented as part of the Obama administration’s health care reform.

Aymond called it “an unprecedented attack on our religious liberty, which is a founding principle of our nation.”

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