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Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks in Bellevue, Wash., on June 15. (Ted S. Warren - AP) Are America’s Catholic bishops getting co-opted by the political right?

One day after a group of bishops sued the Obama administration over a mandate for employers to provide contraception coverage, a California bishop says he and some other bishops are worried that the church’s campaign against the mandate is becoming too political and could hurt the Catholic Church.

Bishop Stephen Blaire, of Stockton, Calif., said in an article in America, a left-leaning magazine published by the Jesuits, that a wider range of views need to be heard when the bishops meet next month in Atlanta. Said Blaine:

The question is what is our focus as bishops and that we have opportunity to clarify our focus and that we are all in agreement.

I think there are different groups that are trying to co-opt [the mandate debate] and make it into a political issue, and that’s why we need to have a deeper discussion as bishops.

“It’s not that Romney is a religious man. It’s not that he’s a church leader. It’s not that he is open with his faith. It is that his Mormon faith, in particular, makes many people uneasy. And that unease has political consequences. [...] Our findings suggest that the type of campaign messaging that can sway voters away from supporting Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon will be difficult to counter.”

Move over, Tim Tebow.

Come this summer, U.S. Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones might become sports’ most famous virgin.

“I just don’t believe in it,” the 29-year-old Jones told HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.” “It's just a gift I want to give my husband. But please understand this journey has been hard. There’s virgins out there and I want to let them know that it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Harder than training for the Olympics. Harder than graduating from college has been to stay a virgin before marriage. I’ve been tempted, I’ve had plenty of opportunities.”

Jones added: “It was cute when I was 22, 24.... [At] 24 to 29 it’s not cute. You get judged a lot, a lot of guys won’t return your calls after they find out.”

In previous media interviews, Jones has shared how her Christian faith infuses all aspects of her life --not just the dating side. She told Women’s Health:

What do you do to cope with stress?

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. But when I’m standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can’t just whip out my Bible before I run. That’s when I start praying! It’s so loud that I can’t even hear what I’m saying, but it always helps.

“The First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom, however, was not meant to protect merely the right to worship, but also the right to contribute the fruits of our faith to the common good. And until now, our government had chosen to honor that guarantee. Never before has the government contested that institutions like Archbishop Carroll High School or Catholic University are religious. Who would? But HHS’s conception of what constitutes the practice of religion is so narrow that even Mother Teresa would not have qualified.

“ The church did not choose this fight. It is HHS that has departed from longstanding practice and precedent to change the law; our response merely aims to preserve our existing rights.”

Cardinal Wuerl outlines reasons behind Catholic institutions’ lawsuit challenging HHS contraception mandate.

After a conservative plan to use President Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright against him in the 2012 election became public (Mitt Romney has since denounced the idea), Obama advisor David Axelrodtold CNN’s Candy Crowley Sunday that the former governor Mormonism was off limits.