On Catholicism:

‘Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a staunch Catholic and a regular lector at his church, opposed the Affordable Care Act because it included a mandate on the provision of birth control. Justice Samuel Alito is a man of strong faith and darling of the Federalist Society, who has consistently ruled in favor of the religious — even supporting their desire to defy data-driven, medically-endorsed, life-saving mandates to thwart COVID-19. Justice Clarence Thomas always goes to Mass before doing his work at the Supreme Court and declared in a 2018 commencement speech at Christendom College, "I am decidedly and unapologetically Catholic."
Thomas might have been the most devout Catholic to ever sit on the bench — at least until Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump foisted Amy Coney Barrett on the country. Barrett has written that Catholic judges must not take any action that conflicts with the dogma of the church. Instead of upholding her secular oath, when such a conflict arises, Barrett has recommended that judges should "conform their own behavior to the [Catholic] Church's standard." When invited to repudiate this statement at her confirmation hearing in 2017, Barrett declined to do so.’

Phil Zuckermand and Andrew L Seidel on Salon.com. See here.

And here’s Maureen Dowd in NYT:

‘As a Catholic whose father lived through the Irish Catholics “need not apply” era, I’m happy to see Catholics do well in the world. There is an astonishing preponderance of Catholics on the Supreme Court — six out of the nine justices, and a seventh, Neil Gorsuch, was raised as a Catholic and went to the same Jesuit boys’ high school in a Maryland suburb that Brett Kavanaugh and my nephews did, Georgetown Prep.
My father was furious that Catholic presidential candidates Al Smith and J.F.K. had to defend themselves against scurrilous charges that, if they got to the White House, they would take their orders from the pope.’

Read the article here.

Religion is unlike race or gender something most Americans don’t like to talk about, a friend recently told me over dinner in New York, and he was right.
In The Netherlands for example there is the mistaken belief that atheists are the truly enlightened people, even when they hold on to all kinds of prejudices, as long as the prejudices are not religious all is well.

Without wading into conspiracy theories, it’s interesting that 6 or 7 of the Supreme Court judges are Catholic, that the president is Catholic and, as an article in Politico stated, back in 2020, that the Church trusts the Holy Spirit to be the ultimate warrior to conquer the world judge by judge.

See here.