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BLOOMFIELD – In an effort to explain and whip up support against what he called a "remarkably hostile" attack on religious freedom by the federal government, Archbishop Henry J. Mansell took to the airwaves for almost two hours on Feb. 8.

The archbishop and Michael C. Culhane, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference, were guests on a WJMJ radio show that focused on the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) mandate requiring coverage of contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs by all private employer health plans.