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NEWS ANALYSIS: The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority faces pushback from Democrats during the final stretch of the 2022 midterm campaign season, with polls marking a decline in popularity.
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, retired Justice Stephen Breyer and a slew of Catholic U.S. government officials gathered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2 for the annual Red Mass, which calls on the Holy Spirit to guide the work of the nation’s judges and law enforcement officers.
Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York, who delivered the homily quoted Romano Guardini, the 20th-century German theologian and author who taught that the best decisions are “accomplished in silence — not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision.”
Bishop Barres encouraged members of the congregation to deepen their prayer life in order to withstand the “clamor” of Beltway politics and to clarify and resolve the competing goods in play when they address complex judicial or criminal cases.
“[W]e need wise counselors to guide us and, most especially, that wisest of counselors — the Holy Spirit, who brings us the gifts of wisdom, understanding and counsel, to let us see through our selfishness and past the boundaries of our own limited intellects,” he said.
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‘An Illegitimate Court?’: New Fall Term, Renewed Criticism
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, retired Justice Stephen Breyer and a slew of Catholic U.S. government officials gathered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2 for the annual Red Mass, which calls on the Holy Spirit to guide the work of the nation’s judges and law enforcement officers.
Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York, who delivered the homily quoted Romano Guardini, the 20th-century German theologian and author who taught that the best decisions are “accomplished in silence — not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision.”
Bishop Barres encouraged members of the congregation to deepen their prayer life in order to withstand the “clamor” of Beltway politics and to clarify and resolve the competing goods in play when they address complex judicial or criminal cases.
“[W]e need wise counselors to guide us and, most especially, that wisest of counselors — the Holy Spirit, who brings us the gifts of wisdom, understanding and counsel, to let us see through our selfishness and past the boundaries of our own limited intellects,” he said.
Continued below.
‘An Illegitimate Court?’: New Fall Term, Renewed Criticism
