by bruce allen murphy, a professor at lafayette college. talk to us about how scalia s catholicism has shaped his legal philosophy. scalia was taught his catholicism by his immigrant romance language professor father. immigrant italian. and he learned a very devout, prevatican to traditional catholicism that has shaped his life. and he got to the point that he was very much in disagreement with kennedy. and when kennedy disavowed his connection between his job and the presidency and catholicism. once on the court, scalia has been disavowing any connection to catholicism in his judging, while simultaneously has been showing in many of the social issue cases abortion, gay rights, the death penalty cases, that he to a much older,