Supreme Court Judge Scalia found dead- " death the great equalizer "

My first reaction to the death of Supreme Court Judge Scalia is the ancient thought : death is the great equalizer even in this democracy of growing inequality. I recall the Samuel Johnson poem " On the Vanity of Human Wishes ". Johnson concluded that only faith, hope, and love endure. An antidote to all forms of fanaticism-on the right and on the left.

  "  In his youth, he failed to get into his first choice high school and then was rejected by Princeton University, later claiming he was passed over because he was 'an Italian boy from Queens, not the Princeton type.'  "

 [   " For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws; Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise.  " Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes ]

How was Judge Scalia influenced by Catholic, Italo-American culture ?