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Panorama of the west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., USA. 10 October 2011. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Joe Ravi. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work ....
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.
As I write, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case that would leave the founders of the American republic shaking their heads in disbelief, appalled that the court they established would indulge is such a distasteful theater of the absurd.