Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Catholic archdiocese of Denver writes in the Denver Post today about a bill in that state involving religious hospitals and contraception:

At a minimum, Catholic hospitals – which provide their services based on moral and religious convictions about the dignity of the human person – should not be obligated to perform or refer for procedures which violate Catholic teaching. This doesn’t involve “preaching” to anybody. It involves fidelity to principle and conscience – the same principles and conscience that animate Catholic service to the poor.

Archbishop Chaput is a Fulton Sheen of our day inasmuch is he is publicly teaching Catholic positions in a practical way (practical issues being political in many cases, at least the ones I tend to note in The Corner) It’s an important role to have the right guy (re: shepherd, if you’re so inclined) in.