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	<title>Comments on: Catholic Education &amp; Sotomayor</title>
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		<title>By: John W Gillis</title>
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		<dc:creator>John W Gillis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Huh? Do you think I should be confident that she will bring a Catholic sensibility to her moral reasoning? Based on what? It would be nice to think that her Catholic schooling would ensure it, but history certainly teaches us to know better. I don&#039;t know her thinking well enough to have any such confidence - and what little I do know about her points clearly in another direction. 

It&#039;s been established that she doesn&#039;t take the Catholic faith seriously enough to even comply with the precepts of the Church (e.g not bothering to show up for Mass except when it serves as a setting for some &quot;event&quot;), which in and of itself is pretty convincing evidence that she won&#039;t be bringing a meaningfully Catholic mind to the bench. Then there&#039;s the small matter of her published comments to the effect that she thinks hispanic women bring inherently superior judgment to certain matters than do genetically inferior people like myself (white males), which flies straight into the face of Catholic views on sound judgment, which sees wisdom as a God-given grace, not a racial or gender-based attribute. Then, of course, there is the simple fact that President Obama nominated her for the Supreme Court seat, and if she took Catholic moral reasoning seriously, he wouldn&#039;t have given her the time of day, never mind a nomination.

No, I see no reason to have confidence she will think like a Catholic. You might rightly call me a pessimist, but how that constitutes &quot;throwing stones&quot; is beyond me...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Huh? Do you think I should be confident that she will bring a Catholic sensibility to her moral reasoning? Based on what? It would be nice to think that her Catholic schooling would ensure it, but history certainly teaches us to know better. I don&#8217;t know her thinking well enough to have any such confidence &#8211; and what little I do know about her points clearly in another direction. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s been established that she doesn&#8217;t take the Catholic faith seriously enough to even comply with the precepts of the Church (e.g not bothering to show up for Mass except when it serves as a setting for some &#8220;event&#8221;), which in and of itself is pretty convincing evidence that she won&#8217;t be bringing a meaningfully Catholic mind to the bench. Then there&#8217;s the small matter of her published comments to the effect that she thinks hispanic women bring inherently superior judgment to certain matters than do genetically inferior people like myself (white males), which flies straight into the face of Catholic views on sound judgment, which sees wisdom as a God-given grace, not a racial or gender-based attribute. Then, of course, there is the simple fact that President Obama nominated her for the Supreme Court seat, and if she took Catholic moral reasoning seriously, he wouldn&#8217;t have given her the time of day, never mind a nomination.</p>
<p>No, I see no reason to have confidence she will think like a Catholic. You might rightly call me a pessimist, but how that constitutes &#8220;throwing stones&#8221; is beyond me&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I have little confidence that Justice Sotomayor, if she is confirmed, will demonstrate how a Catholic education can help shape the moral character with Catholic meaning… I hope I’m wrong.&quot;

Really? You wouldn&#039;t be throwing stones would you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I have little confidence that Justice Sotomayor, if she is confirmed, will demonstrate how a Catholic education can help shape the moral character with Catholic meaning… I hope I’m wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really? You wouldn&#8217;t be throwing stones would you?</p>
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