Archbishop William Lori has offered a cautious welcome to President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty. The order was designed to protect religious organisations from being forced into actions that would compromise their ethos. Specifically, it should help them from having to comply with a healthcare mandate that they must buy “health” insurance for their employees that includes contraceptive and abortifacient coverage. Speaking to Crux, he said “this looks like a good development, we’re glad to see it, especially those parts that promise us some relief from the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act”. However, he added a note of caution: “First, the devil is in the details, so let’s see how it works out. Secondly, while this is welcome, there are still a lot of other challenges, even at the federal level, that lay before us.” Specifically, on the controversial mandate, he said: “Maybe we can get ‘preventive services’ redefined, so they really do pertain to preventing diseases and not to inducing abortions or preventing birth.”