Supreme Court nominee product of Catholic education

Published: 2005-07-21

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (CNS) -- While media attention July 19 focused on President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, that attention migrated the following day to northwest Indiana and the Diocese of Gary, where Roberts attended classes and excelled academically in Catholic schools. Reporters and news vans could be seen July 20 at Notre Dame School in Michigan City and La Lumiere School outside LaPorte, where Roberts had studied after his steel-working family moved to Indiana in the 1960s. For staff members at both sites it was a day to be proud -- especially knowing Roberts as they did. They all praised the former student-athlete. Joan Langley, the current parish secretary at Notre Dame whose son John attended La Lumiere with Roberts, a judge of the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, recalled from a speech Roberts made that he "had the ability to take all the facts, hold onto them and tell them in a language you could understand."

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