The New Religious Composition of the U.S. Supreme Court

Anyone find it interesting that with the recent elevations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, the majority of the court is now Catholic, including its Chief Justice? I find that fascinating. Follow the link above to some statistical data in this regard. But, as it is now, fully five of the nine justices on the high court are Catholic (Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito). About 1/4 of the current U.S. population is Catholic, but the religious representation on the court is ~56%!

Hmm...well, I'm sure we're more concerned about the actual judgments to come out of Roberts and Alito in the ensuing years, rather than their simply being registered as Catholics--after all Anthony Kennedy is a registered Catholic, but his judgments in recent years have had precious little overlap with those of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in not a few important cases.