Washington D.C., Jul 21, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Earlier this week, President George Bush introduced Judge John Roberts as a Supreme Court nominee. The nomination quickly captured the interest of the media, but the man remained relatively unknown to a large majority of Americans.
Even Catholic League president William Donohue admitted in a press release Wednesday that he didn’t know Roberts was Catholic until a journalist, critical of the nomination, pointed it out.
Roberts was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He was the only boy in a family of three girls. According to a report by the Associated Press, his family soon moved to Long Beach, Ind., where his father, John Roberts Sr., was employed as an electrical engineer in the steel mills near Gary, Ind. Roberts also spent his summers in high school and college working at the mill.
Growing up, he attended Catholic elementary and high schools, and he remains a practising Catholic as a parishioner at Little Flower Catholic Church, not far from his current home in Maryland.