Really? I knew one of his kids was a lawyer, didn't know about the priest. Great article - it's easy for our prayers and rituals to start becoming habit more than acts of love so it's good to be reminded every so often to be viligent against this happening.
oops, TEN children. You should like this article from a few years ago:
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Igpress/CWR/CWR0796/profile1.html
little snip -
The proud father (Justice Scalia)
...there is no such lacuna in his personal piety. By all accounts he is a devout Catholic, utterly loyal to the Church, thoroughly devoted to his wife and their ten (yes, ten) children.
During his May trip to Rome, Justice Scalia gave the public a rare and revealing glimpse of his personal piety. After his speech at the Gregorian University, he was invited to address seminarians at the North American College--where his own son Paul was a student. In introducing his distinguished guest the rector, Msgr. Timothy Dolan, remarked that the North American College might be the only place on earth where Justice Scalia was welcomed as "Paul's father"--when everywhere else the young man was identified as "Justice Scalia's son."
That introducton was obviously intended as a joke, but the Justice did not take it as such. Stepping to the podium, he said, with a burst of emotion that caught his audience by surprise, and moistened more than a few eyes,"Being introduced as Paul's father is all the introduction I could ever desire."
Just sixteen days thereafter, Paul Scalia was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. Naturally the proud father was on hand for the ceremony. But careful observers noticed that Justice Clarence Thomas was also in the congregation, and appeared thoroughly absorbed by the ceremony.
Of course the appearance of Justice Thomas at Paul Scalia's ordination could be explained as a routine act of respect for a colleague and friend. But when Father Paul Scalia said his first Mass the next day, Justice Thomas was in the congregation again, and the rapt expression on his face could no longer be dismissed.
Two weeks later, Justice Thomas confirmed what many neighbors had begun to suspect. The obvious devotion he saw in the young priest, and the fierce pride he saw in Paul's father, had moved him to re-examine his own religious beliefs. After years away from home, Clarence Thomas had returned to the Catholic Church.