The appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court started a sidebar debate about five Catholics on the Court and how that commonality would affect their decisions. Given the end-of-term decisions, that now seems a moot point.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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