Much has been said recently regarding Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s claim that Catholic Judges must not pay attention to the declarations of Pope John Paul II on the use of the death penalty, and, always happy to give governments an opportunity to kill people, many conservatives flocked to Scalia’s defense after the judge received some flack for his allegedly irreverent remarks. Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has already written an interesting piece discussing Scalia’s bizarre attempt to apply the "framers’ intent" argument to the Catholic Church, and it should certainly be no surprise to us that Scalia, who generally supports state … Continue reading Scalia and Buchanan vs. the Pope