The court's longest-serving justice brought his penetrating mind to bear on the right to life and the nature of marriage in ways that still bear reading, and re-reading, today.
It is inconceivable that somebody who so openly opposes Catholic teaching could inspire his fellow cardinals, bishops, priests and laity in their work for the defense of human life, marriage and the family.
Scalia was an ardent defender of the principle that the right to life has been severely denigrated by the United States Supreme Court since the infamous Roe and Doe surgical abortion decisions of 1973.