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In Search of a Reverent Mass: “Really, we’ve always traveled some distance.”
Joan Biskupic, in her biography American Original: the Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, explains that throughout their lives Scalia and his family traveled considerable distances to attend reverently celebrated Masses. The family often encountered priests whose homilies denigrated the sacred mysteries and teachings of the Catholic faith. And Antonin Scalia, even before becoming a Supreme Court justice, was not shy in confronting such priests.
“We have always traveled long distances to go to a church that we thought had a really reverent Mass, the kind of church that when you go in, it is quiet—not that kind of church where it is like a community hall and everybody is talking,” Justice Scalia explained in an interview. “We used to travel in Chicago . . . [At first] we went to the church that was closest . . . in Hyde Park. I remember the last straw there. And it was around Christmas time and they had some smart-ass young Jesuit who said the Mass and gave the sermon, and said, ‘Of course, we know that all of this about the manger and all . . . is fanciful.”
Biskupic explains: “Scalia, who was then a professor at the University of Chicago, was furious that a priest would denigrate the story of Jesus Christ’s birth in a stable. The remark cast doubt on the depiction of Mary laying Jesus in a manger, a story from St. Luke’s Gospel that Scalia and his wife, Maureen, taught their children.”
Justice Scalia would confront the priest about it and explain to him that he would not stand for such teaching, his family leaving that church for one with a more reverent presiding.
“So we used to go downtown [in Chicago] to a little Church near the Merchandise Mart,” Scalia continued, “a little church run by an Italian order, the Servites, and they had a very devout Mass. I did the same in Charlottesville. We had to go to that university church. They had some crazy Dominicans. After one sermon when it was relativist morality, I went up to the priest afterward and I said, ‘What is this stuff?’ And he said, ‘Well you know, the teaching of the church changes.’ . . . So I was out of there . . . Really we’ve always traveled some distance.” (Biskupic, 186).
“In the 1970’s, when he worked for Presidents Nixon and Ford, Scalia often drove his family over from their northern Virginia home to St. Matthew’s [Cathedral in downtown Washington, D.C.]. In those years American Catholicism was veering away from solemn organ music toward folksier guitar masses. But St. Matthew’s still offered the Latin Mass, and Scalia sought it out. The extra hour of driving to a just-right church became part of the routine of the Scalia children’s upbringing. When the family lived in Chicago and Charlottesville, too, Scalia looked for a church with a high Mass and the reverence he desired.”
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