Judge Alito, Catholics, Sovereign Immunity, and the Court

Over at my blogging home-base, "Mirror of Justice," we are having a lively conversation about Catholics on the Court, sovereign immunity and Catholic Social Teaching, structural federalism, and Reformation Day.  Check it out.  In particular, my new blogging colleague Eduardo Penalver and I are discussing whether there is a tension between the substantive policies often associated with the Catholic Social Thought tradition and the judicial enforcement of the Constitution's "structural" features.