Hannah Smith is senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing employers in several legal challenges to the birth control mandate.

Sept. 27, 2009, The Vancouver Sun article about the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit where the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu jointly received the Fetzer Prize for Love and Forgiveness.

John Brehany is executive director of the Catholic Medical Association. He says there has been some confusion about whether and when sterilization is ever acceptable at Catholic hospitals. His organization opposes the contraception coverage rule and says the revised mandate falls far short of addressing opponents’ concerns.

Read a Feb. 9, 2012, article at Slate.com on how, historically, the issue of contraceptives divided Catholics and Protestants.

Read a Feb. 10, 2012, op-ed column in The Wall Street Journal by Roman Catholic Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik and Charles Colson.

Read a Feb. 10, 2012, Christian Post story about some Christian leaders and organizations responding negatively after Obama tweaked the initial coverage mandate in an attempt to accommodate religious objections.

Read a Feb. 11, 2012, Christian Post story about some Christian leaders and organizations responding positively after Obama tweaked the initial coverage mandate in an attempt to accommodate religious objections.

Read a Feb. 16, 2012, New York Times article about how religious groups equate some contraceptives and abortion.

Read an article by Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, about the debate over contraception in America. The Feb. 17, 2012, column is on The Washington Post’s On Faith blog.