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Article: Supreme Court's Brennan left rich legacy.(William J. Brennan)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 15, 1997
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History will one day recall that it was the Catholic son of poor immigrants from Ireland who expanded the U.S. Constitution into a document that extends to all people the equality and dignity granted to them by Judaism and Christianity. That son of Ireland, Justice William Joseph Brennan, died July 24 at the age of 91.
President Clinton, at Brennan's funeral in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington (where President Kennedy's funeral Mass was held), expressed the sentiments of millions when he called Brennan a "hero" and a "model for law and service."
In Brennan's 34 years on the U.S. Supreme Court his profound conviction of human equality and dignity ...