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[OldLeftieLawyer]

He went to secular undergraduate and law schools, so he's One Of Ours (Jesuit-trained), but he's not through-and-through.

His foundation, though, has served him - and us - very well.

It's nice, the amount of faith you have in Jesuits and the work they do with their charges, and the concept of Karma, conversely from what I wrote earlier about Occam's Razor, is far more complicated than the common misconception of "What goes around, comes around".

We need a clear more, political, and humanitarian vision in order to take our place at the head of the table. Waiting for indictments and hoping the rightwingnuts will self-destruct is not enough.

My Jesuit training as a lawyer, I must tell you, put absolutely nothing religious in me that wasn't there before. They taught us to use the law in ways that others might not have noticed, but they never instilled one bit of Roman Catholic dogma.

So, what you have in Patrick Fitzgerald is just a damn fine lawyer. I suspect he'd be the first to be horrified by anyone trying to pigeonhole him because of his religion.

After all, that's what the fundies do, don't forget.