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Mr. Justice Scalia’s acceptance
was Scholar in Residence at the Ameri-
can Enterprise Institute, Visiting Pro-
Counsel of the US Department of Jus- heavily immersed in academic and
tice. government affairs, he maintained a
ber 26, 1986, he was sworn onto the
Supreme Court of the United States.
From 1977 and 1984, Justice Scalia position as editor of Regulation maga- Scalia recieved both nominatons from
reentered the academic world. Scalia zine, Chairman of the ABA section of President Reagan. Scalia is also a family
Administative Law, and Chairman of man; he and his wife Maureen have
the ABA section of the Conference nine children, ages from 10 to 30.
fessor of Law at Georgetown and then Chairmen. On August 17,1982, Scalia
Stanford University, and a Professor of took the oath of office as Justice of the speech was both witty and enlighten-
Law at Chicago. Even while Scalia was US Court of Appeals, and on Septem- ing. Justice Scalia started his speech by
‘The Christian bears a moral
obligation towards the just
state.
The main function of gov-
ernment is not the hereafter
but the here.
Photo courtesy of Thomas More Society
Scalia delivers his acceptance speech at the Faimount in downtown Dallas on October 16,1990.
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Justice Antonin Scalia and senior Murray Blackman.
claiming that he had “no qualms or res-
ervations about speaking to a group of
Catholic Lawyers. As you know, the
New Testament places lawyers a good
deal below the tax collectors.” Accord-
ing to Scalia, lawyers in today’s society
are not the same as the lawyers Jesus
spoke of in the New Testament. “The
law they expounded was a religious
law—they were closer to, dare I say it,
theologians.” The main focus of Scalia’s
speech centered on the separation of
church and state. As Scalia views it, the
separation of church and state, a separa-
tion included in the Constitution, is
necessary because “the two spheres of
church and state are seperate.” The
Christian, as Scalia puts it, “bears a
moral obligation towards the just state.
The lawful civil authority must be
obeyed not only out of fear but also for
the sake of conscience.” The separation
of church andstate, however, “does not
mean that political views of men and
woman should not remain unaffected
and uninformed by their religious be-
liefs.”
Scalia pointed out at that the most
important objectives of human exis-
tence-virtue, goodness, salvation -are
not achieved through the State. “The
Gospels are so full of this message that
it is hard to believe that it is so readily
ignored.” A good government should
not “impede the religious practices of
its people. The main function of gov-
ernment is not the hereafter but the
here. Its duty is to ensure a safe, just and
prosperous society.”
Dr. Gerard Wegemer, Assistant Pro-
fessor of English, found Scalia’s speech
“very appropiate. Justice Scalia shows
that one does not have to sacrifice family
for profession.” Marc Haefner, a Sen-
ior Philosophy Major, stated that Scalia
gave a “very effective speech, an inter-
esting exposition of Biblical quotes.”
UD students were able to attend the
event thanks to Dr. Wegemer, who
teaches a class on Thomas More to
lawyers in the Society.
by Ann M. Kubala
On Tuesday night, October 16, a
group of UD students attended the pres-
entation of the St Thomas More life-
time Achievement Award to Mr. Jus-
tice Antonin Scalia. The Saint Thomas
More Society presented the award to
Justice Scalia at their fall dinner which
was held at the Fairmont Hotel. The
Saint Thomas More society, a Catholic
Attorney’s Guild, was founded “to
provide service to the church, to foster
spiritual growth and fellowship among
Catholic lawyers and to promote an
awamess of the teachings of Saint
Thomas More.” The Dallas Charter of
The Thomas More Society was offi-
cially started on December 13,1988 by
Bishop Thomas Tschoepe. This is the
second year for the society to give a
Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Saint Thomas More Society of
the Diocese of Dallas bestows this honor
upon individuals who portray the he-
roic characteristics illustrated in the life
of Saint Thomas More. The Society
entrusted Justice Scalia with this award
because “his dedication to the church,
his country, his profession and his
family exemplifies the qualities of St.
Thomas More and identifies him as a
figure in the Catholic Community to be
admired and emulated.”
Justice Scalia studied at the Univer-
sity of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1955
and 1956 and then returned to the US
where he obtained an A.B. degree in
History from Georgetown. In 1960,
Scaliarecieved an LL.B, from Harvard
University. Justice Scalia started his
legal career with a firm in Cleveland,
Ohio. From there, at the University of
Virginia as a professor of Law.
Scalia has held various positions in
the federal government. He served as
General Counsel of the Office of Tele-
communications Policy in the Execu-
tive Office of the President, Chairman
of the Administrative Conference of
the United States, and Assistant Attor-
ney General in the Office of Legal
Scalia Represents a Figure in the Catholic Community to be Admired and Emulated
SCALIA RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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