Devout U.S. Catholics like himself may stand apart from much of the nation on abortion, homosexuality, and embryonic stem-cell research, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a packed audience at Villanova University yesterday, but he insisted "there is no such thing as a 'Catholic judge.' "
"The bottom line is that the Catholic faith seems to me to have little effect on my work as a judge," he declared.
Invited to speak to that very question - "the role of Catholic faith in the work of a judge" - the famously opinionated justice rendered his decision just three minutes into his keynote lecture at Villanova Law School's annual Scarpa conference on law, politics and culture.
"Just as there is no 'Catholic' way to cook a hamburger," he said to a murmur of laughter, "I am hard-pressed to tell you of a single opinion of mine that would have come out differently if I were not Catholic."
Nonetheless, he continued, his Catholic faith obliges him to abide by two "commands" in his life and his work as a judge.
" 'Be thou perfect as thy heavenly Father is perfect.' And 'Thou shalt not lie,' " he said.
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