Watching the spectacle, replete with incense ... and soaring choir music

There were six Justices in attendance at today's Red Mass in D.C. It's safe to say that they were not all there for all the same reasons. But if the news hook just is that six Justices were there, then it becomes journalistically expedient to attribute at least one common function or reason for their presence as a group. According to Tony Mauro in National Law Journal, "Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan were in the front pews of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle to watch the spectacle, replete with incense, bishops and priests in scarlet vestments and soaring choir music." I'm glad they were all there, though the spectacle, incense, and music were not for them.

The article reports that the homily (or "sermon") would not have been offensive to Justice Ginsburg. Perhaps the readings did not lend themselves to an "outrageously anti-abortion" message. In light of some of Justice Ginsburg's recent interviews, I wonder if there are any "anti-abortion" messages that are not "outrageously" so.