So What if Justice Alito is Catholic?
Is it particularly newsworthy if the most of the Supreme Court justices are Catholic?
We all know first that the Supreme Court is not a representative body, so concerns about a Court that “looks like America” doesn’t fly very far. We also know that being Catholic does not necessarily mean that you hew close to the doctrines of the Church (as we might remember from the John Kerry/abortion/communion dustup during the last election campaign) nor that any two Catholics are going to share the same level of devotion to the Church.
So what’s the point?
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Category: Political Pontifications
It is called prejudice and it shouldn't have anything to do with anything.
Now, if he said his aim was to turn the country into a Catholic country that would be something else.
Is it that or it is the likelihood that the folks writing about Alito don't understand that religion is not a monolithic thing – that two people following the same religion can follow it to two different degrees of devotion and adherence to its tenets?