The privatization of "religion"?

I find the following two recent statements by the estimable Cardinal Dolan impossible to reconcile.

Statement 1, the more recent statement, is this:

"I am worried that we may be reducing religious freedom to a kind of privacy right to recreational activities, reducing the practice of religion to a Sabbath hobby, instead of a force that should guide our public actions, as Michelle Obama recently noted, Monday through Friday."  The context is here.

 

Statement 2, the somewhat earlier statement, is as follows:

"That’s all it’s really about: religious freedom.

It’s not about access to contraception, as much as our local newspaper—surprise!—insists it is. The Church is hardly trying to impose its views on society, but rather resisting the government’s attempt to force its view on us.

Vast and unfettered access to chemical contraceptives and abortifacients—all easier to get, they tell me, than beer and cigarettes—will continue. If you think it’s still not enough, then subsidize them if you insist. Just don’t make us provide them and pay for them!"  (emphasis added)  The context is here.

Statement 2 sure sounds like a plea to privatize the Catholic religion.  The alternative would be for the Church to teach, as a "force . . . that guide[s] our public actions," that no one should engage in conduct that violates the moral law.  When, instead, the claim is that what it's "all . . . about" is "religious freedom" and nothing more, the Church ceases to be a force that guides our public actions.  It's not just about "religious freedom," however.  It's also and fundamentally about the Church's divine mission to correct and transform society.