Sharon Otterman of The New York Times reports that although “Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has been spearheading the fight against a provision of the new health care law that requires employers, including some that are religiously affiliated, to cover birth control in employee health plans … the archdiocese he heads has quietly been paying for such coverage, albeit reluctantly and indirectly, for thousands of its unionized employees for over a decade.” Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said, “We provide the services under protest.”