Yesterday, six of the Justices participated in the 56th annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, reports the Blog of the Legal Times . Six of the sitting Justices are Roman Catholic (Sotomayor, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy), but Justice Clarence Thomas was absent; Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is Jewish, attended the service, as did Vice President Joseph Biden. The Mass drew special attention both because of the record number of Roman Catholics on the bench