[behzinlea]

When Justice Stephen Breyer pressed the issue, asking specifically whether the Catholic Church should be allowed to bar women from the priesthood

Interesting. Non-catholic (and liberal) Breyer asked a question that six of his colleagues--all Catholic (four and a half of them conservative)--might have felt too conflicted to ask.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Non-catholic (and liberal) Breyer asked a question that six of his colleagues--all Catholic (four and a half of them conservative)--might have felt too conflicted to ask.

Chief Justice Roberts was the initial one to raise the issue of the Church and the Priesthood. Breyer was just chiming in after the fact.