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SShe once called herself a “servant girl” and now she will become one of the most powerful women in the United States: Amy Coney Barrett, 48, and until now a federal appeals judge in Chicago. Trump’s favorite to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is a devout Catholic with seven children, but she was also a law professor for eighteen years and always emphasizes that her religious attitudes did not prevent her from making fair and legally sound judgments. talk.
Barrett is the candidate of choice for conservatives because they expect conservative judgments from her on issues like the abortion law. “It’s like it’s tailor-made for this moment,” Carrie Severino, president of the lobbying organization “Judicial Crisis Network,” told the “New York Times.” For many Democrats, however, Barrett embodies everything they reject. At Barrett’s appeals court hearing, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein got to the heart of the concerns and told the candidate, “Dogma speaks out loud.”
However, many Democrats want to focus on substantive criticism. The candidate’s religion is irrelevant, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii said Sunday. At the hearings he will address the question of whether Barrett is threatening to abolish the “Obamacare” health insurance system.
Strong ties with the Catholic University of Notre Dame
However, Barrett’s independence is also questioned by his critics because he belongs to a religious organization about which little is known. People of Praise is a small Catholic group based in South Bend, Indiana. It was founded in 1971 and has less than 2,000 members internationally. This led many commentators to characterize the organization as a particularly conspiratorial cult. Barrett’s membership was revealed at his 2017 federal appeals court hearings in Chicago.
Amy Coney Barrett, a nominee for the United States Supreme Court, stands on Capitol Hill on October 1.
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However, he did not officially declare his membership at the time or time of the current nomination. Barrett was, for example, on the board of directors of a network of “People of Praise” private schools. While studying law, he lived in South Bend with the group’s co-founder and his wife. The organization also has strong ties to the private Catholic University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where Barrett studied and was a professor. The group itself did not comment on Barrett’s affiliation. “People of Praise” is said to have recently removed all references to the judge from its website and removed the archive from its own magazine, according to the Washington Post.
Most of the “praise people” are Catholic and, according to religious historian James Connelly of the University of Notre Dame, they seek primarily “more intense” religious experiences. Like most of these groups, this one too is organized on a patriarchal basis. The organization is run by a presidency, the Board of Governors. Barrett’s father is a former member of that body. In addition to this federal board, there are regional boards. The group is represented in 22 American cities and towns and is part of the “charismatic” tradition of Christianity. Groups of this tendency seek an experience of intensive worship, which also leads to alleged healings and a kind of ecstatic state, which should “speak in tongues.” She also places this in the tradition of the Pentecostal movement, which also exists in Europe.
