Supreme Court frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett committed to ‘building the Kingdom of God’

Sep 22, 2020 by Andrew Symes

By Will Maule, Premier:

The leading candidate to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States is Amy Coney Barrett – a conservative Catholic who has spoken openly about her faith.

A former professor of law at Notre Dame University, Barrett once said that her legal career was “but a means to an end … and that end is building the Kingdom of God”. She is also a member of a charismatic Catholic group called ‘People of Praise’.

In 2017, Barrett was grilled about her religious convictions by members of the United States Senate after being appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by President Donald Trump. At one point, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein famously remarked that the “dogma lived loudly within” Barrett, referring to her Catholic faith and how it informs her views on various social issues – Barrett is pro-life and against same-sex unions, believing that marriage should be “founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman”.

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