''The Catholic community is not going out dancing in the streets of Boston tonight because of this nomination,'' said James Davidson, a Purdue University sociologist who researches religion and Supreme Court justices. ''But it still represents a significant development in American religious history.'' This from an AP article on Judge Alito.
Plus a fun pun from Prof. Barbara Perry: "This would add a whole new meaning to the Catholic rite of confirmation," said Barbara A. Perry, a Supreme Court expert at Sweet Briar College in Virginia." In today's Times.
And, to round it off, some extended discussions of, among other things, Alito, anti-Catholicism, and a supposed revival of the Knights Templar as "an elite group of soldiers" by the Vatican, on the Volokh Conspiracy.
11.01.2005
56% Catholic...a Round-Up on the Court
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The comments on the Volokh Conspiracy would make an ecclesiologist's (a real word?) hair fall out.
You'd think Catholics were a club devoted only to getting as many members as possible. Hellooo...we are people with the task of continuing Christ's mission to the poor in the world, not a large and self-serving interest group. Some of us may act like triumphalist number-crunchers--me, at my worst moments included--but that is NOT who we are.
Now if only Dorothy Day or Thomas Merton had been on the Supreme Court...
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