A Catholic Supreme Justice

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 5, 1911

A Catholic Supreme Justice

IN speaking of the appointment of Justice White as chief justice of the Supreme Court, the United Presbyterian of December 22 says:—

There is little or no criticism in the newspapers, religious or secular, of the appointment of a justice who is a Roman Catholic by training and profession to the chief place in the Supreme Court. On all hands he is represented to be a man of fine character, and a judge of great ability, learned in the law and just. It is not difficult to see that the making of a choice for such a place, with the great numbers of able available men from whom to select, must be extremely perplexing. It is probable that the religious affiliations of the distinguished chief justice will in no way influence his conduct in his high office; but it must be confessed that, with a full knowledge of the teaching of his church as to its paramountcy over civil allegiance, there can not be that unreserved approval of the appointment which is to be desired.