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WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., six members of the Supreme Court and hundreds of members of the legal community.
Five of the six Roman Catholics on the high court — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — heard the homily by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo; the sixth, Justice Clarence Thomas, did not attend. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is Jewish, was there as well.
Speaking at the annual Red Mass the day before the opening of the Supreme Court term, Cardinal DiNardo said that people represented by lawyers are “more than clients. … In some cases the clients are voiceless for they lack influence; in others they are literally voiceless, not yet with tongues and even without names, and require our most careful attention and radical support.”
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Five of the six Roman Catholics on the high court — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — heard the homily by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo; the sixth, Justice Clarence Thomas, did not attend. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is Jewish, was there as well.
Speaking at the annual Red Mass the day before the opening of the Supreme Court term, Cardinal DiNardo said that people represented by lawyers are “more than clients. … In some cases the clients are voiceless for they lack influence; in others they are literally voiceless, not yet with tongues and even without names, and require our most careful attention and radical support.”
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