PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
Christine M. Flowers: A MAN OF GRAVITAS & GRANDEUR: No saint, but deserves our prayer
Christine M. Flowers
Philadelphia Daily News
A FEW YEARS AGO, I went to a conference at the Union League where one of my heroes, Antonin Scalia, was going to be present.
I acted like a ‘tweener faced with the prospect of meeting Justin Beiber: heart palpitations, twisted tongue and a conviction that my hair looked horrible.
You have to understand. For conservative lawyers, Justice Nino is a rock star.
So transfixed was I by the legal lion, I almost missed an opportunity to cross paths with another grandiose presence: Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who was also in attendance and being honored on his retirement. Imagine having those two in the same room: icons of church and state (and there wasn’t much of a wall between them either, since I saw them sharing a drink in a corner.)
When a photographer approached and said that we could have a photo taken with both of the Eminent Italians, I jumped at the chance. For the first time in my life, I was speechless, stripped of the ability to communicate with anything other than my mesmerized eyes.
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