The Rev. Kenneth Schnipke presides over Mass this morning at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Celina. Schnipke and several other local priests support a letter by Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati denouncing a federal edict forcing Catholic employers to provide health insurance that covers sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and contraception.

Local Catholic priests are championing a letter from Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati that denounces a federal mandate forcing most employers to cover health services deemed immoral by the church. The new healthcare ruli . . .