A panel of the nation’s Catholic bishops urged their colleagues Thursday to launch a two-week summer campaign in nearly 18,000 parishes to energize Catholics against what the bishops see as developing threats, in government policy and on college campuses, to the religious liberty of Catholics and people of other faiths.

The document is the latest roll-out in a months-long, multipronged campaign to oppose a health care reform mandate by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. It requires that faith-based ministries that deal with the public provide employees insurance coverage for artificial birth control, surgical sterilization and the “morning after” pill.

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