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The voyages of discovery brought European hubris and expansionism , but also greater humility as the achievements of other civilizations became known . Act ( for reasons having little to do with religion ) while , on the other , it relaxed a little its rigidly secularist reading of the no-establishment provision of the Religion Clause in Agostino . Since he accepts the magisterial authority of the Church to be wholly true , he readily admits that what he has either ruled or advised in this volume could be wrong by the final authority of what he calls " the better judgment of the Catholic Church . We are looking at a pension scheme that certainly was recommended following a consideration of all the factors , and the government has not said that any factors were excluded from consideration from the Judicial Compensation Committee . What is the position of the government on the report from the Judicial Compensation Committee ? Here it seems that we have an instance of Grisez 's moral passion getting the better of his moral reason . I will not read all of it , but this information was provided to the members of the Judicial Compensation Committee . Moreover , on assisted suicide it appeared to step back from its much-criticized practice of the judicial usurpation of politics ( an appearance that is , I believe , misleading , for reasons set forth by Robert P. George and others in our October symposium on the Court ) . It indeed has reduced the judicial compensation process to a sham .