"Will Catholics be Fooled Again?" asks Paul A. Green for Godspy

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Paul Green offers a comprehensive analysis of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts. He wanders if Catholics are getting fooled again, of if Roberts is the real deal:

A Supreme Court nominee who isn't likely to burn us this time, say many social conservatives—including some Catholics leading the fight against abortion. A man whose appointment will honor the president's pledge to appoint justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and repay the political debt President Bush owes to pro-lifers, these Roberts supporters seem to suggest.

"This is what we voted for in November's election-a positive change on the Supreme Court," said Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, in an electronic "alert" to the troops minutes after Bush's July 19 nomination. Pavone's e-mail described Roberts as "highly qualified," with "proven legal abilities."

But leaders of other Catholic right-to-life organizations say they're not ready to celebrate just yet. While expressing "cautious optimism" about the devoutly Catholic Roberts—and while certainly having nothing negative to say about the man personally—there is still too much uncertainty to rest easy, they say.

On some levels Roberts is exactly the type of person pro-lifers and social conservatives would want on the court.
Referring to the social conservatives solidly behind Roberts from the start, Father Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, told GodSpy: "They're kind of presuming a whole lot, whereas I'm saying I'm going to wait and see. I hope he's a dyed-in-the-wool pro-lifer."

He presents a fair case on the hopeful, and ambiguous, signs that surround Judge Roberts. Check it out!