"I just don’t think Sonia would fit in with Roberts, exactly, and certainly not Scalia."

"I think they’re very different Catholics.”

So says a Jesuit priest who knows Judge Sonia Sotomayor, as reported by The New York Times in an article which also states:

There are indications that Judge Sotomayor is more like the majority of American Catholics: those who were raised in the faith and shaped by its values, but who do not attend Mass regularly and are not particularly active in religious life. Like many Americans, Judge Sotomayor may be what religion scholars call a “cultural Catholic” — a category that could say something about her political and social attitudes.

Yes, it sure could...

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[Bender]

So Sonia would not fit in with Scalia, huh? Well, for his part, Scalia has always had the reputation of being good friends with his colleagues. Indeed, he has said that his best friend on the Court is his ideological opposite --

"I consider myself a good friend of every one of my colleagues, both past and present. Some more than others. My best friend on the Court is and has been for many years, Ruth Ginsburg. Her basic approach is not mine, but she’s a lovely person and a good loyal friend."

Sorry to hear that Sonia (or her Jesuit friend) are as magnanimous.

[joe]

I found the immediate proximity of these two paragraphs from the Times piece a helpful exercise in Post V2 cause-and-effect mathematics:

“We were allowed and encouraged to ask a lot of questions,” said Ms. Morris, who is now the girls athletic director at Spellman High. “We were asking, what’s wrong with the other religions, and why do you say everybody else is going to Hell?”

At Princeton, where Judge Sotomayor belonged to a Puerto Rican student group, a group of Latino students attended Mass every week, but she was not among them, a former classmate recalled."