Justice Alito to address Saint Charles Borromeo graduates

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will address graduates at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood this week.

The justice is slated to speak at Wednesday's Concursus ceremony, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced Monday.

The event in the St. Martin of Tours chapel is the seminary's annual graduation ceremony in which academic degrees are awarded to seminarians and both religious and lay students enrolled in its School of Theological Studies programs.

Alito will give the Concursus address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree, the archdiocese said.

Alito, a Trenton native and former federal appeals court judge in Philadelphia, is one of five Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court.

He is one of many high-profile speakers addressing graduates in the Philadelphia area this spring. Other local graduation speakers include Sen. Cory Booker at the University of Pennsylvania, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Haverford College and, last week, football coach Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeil at Temple University.