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    Amy Coney Barrett's Faith Will Be on Trial if Trump Picks Her, so What Does She Believe?


    Amy Coney Barrett's Faith Will Be on Trial if Trump Picks Her, so What Does She Believe?
    09-23-2020
    Steve Warren and Benjamin Gill
    Amy Coney Barrett's Faith Will Be on Trial if Trump Picks Her, so What Does She Believe? | CBN News


    ....Family and Faith

    Barrett is a mother of seven children. At just 48-years-old, Barrett holds promise for a potential decades-long term on the bench. She once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, taught law at Notre Dame, and has reported conservative views about protecting religious freedom.

    As to her faith, Barrett is a part of the charismatic renewal movement within the Catholic Church and participates in a "covenant community" called People of Praise. The organization is not a formal Catholic organization. It has no canonical standing.

    Many charismatic Catholics see themselves as a continuation of the historic Azusa Street Revival of 1906,
    a modern outpouring of the Holy Spirit like in the biblical book of Acts. That includes supernatural gifts referred to in the New Testament, such as the gifts of healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues.

    The movement spread to the Catholic Church in 1967 when professors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh held a retreat at which people were baptized in the Spirit.

    After that retreat, prayer groups began forming across the country, and the charismatic renewal movement within the Catholic Church blossomed. Fifty years later, charismatic Catholics can be found around the globe. They often worship in traditional churches but have developed a network of charismatic prayer groups, retreats, and conferences.

    The movement first gained a papal blessing in the 1980s. In 2017, Pope Francis marked the 50th anniversary of Catholic charismatic renewal in Rome.

    Though it is not embraced by everyone, the pope said, "it is true that it fully belongs in the biblical tradition."......







    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    The Dems intent isn't to prove her unfit, their intent is to break her.

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    The Dems will be hard on her, for sure. She will have to be strong and well prepared for it.

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    ....But there are early signs this is going to be ugly, and that her religion will be front and center. That subject came up in 2017 when the Senate approved her as a federal appeals court judge in Chicago.

    Newsweek jumped on the judge with a smear that turned out to be factually wrong.


    Barrett is a devout Catholic, and the magazine described her (as previous profiles have) as a member of People of Praise, "the charismatic Christian parachurch organization, which was founded in South Bend, Indiana in 1971, teaches that men have authority over their wives. Members swear a lifelong oath of loyalty to one another and are expected to donate at least 5 percent of their earnings to the group."

    So she should be disqualified because of her religious affiliation? Isn't that the essence of anti-Catholic prejudice?

    Newsweek went a step further
    and invoked Margaret Atwood's novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," "where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime."

    Uh, but Newsweek, in its zeal, tied the novel to the wrong group. Its correction:

    "This article's headline originally stated that People of Praise inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'. The book's author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work. A New Yorker profile of the author from 2017 mentions a newspaper clipping as part of her research for the book of a different charismatic Catholic group, People of Hope. Newsweek regrets the error."...


    Media assault on Amy Coney Barrett begins as Trump weighs decision | Fox News




    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
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    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    As I understand it, they don't even have to have the vetting, Q and A, session. They could have gone right to the vote.

    ACCORDING TO RUSH LIMBAUGH

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    If Barrett is the nominee, I pray that the persecution will awaken the Catholics to a godly life and VOTE. This hopefully will cause that politically lazy American group, that 40% of christians that do not vote, to come to their senses that this may be the LAST opportunity.

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    Trump Chooses Amy Coney Barrett: Here's How She Lives Out Her Pro-Life Beliefs
    09-26-2020
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    Trump Chooses Amy Coney Barrett: Here's How She Lives Out Her Pro-Life Beliefs | CBN News


    Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's brand new nominee to the Supreme Court, is a devout Catholic who lives out her pro-life beliefs.

    Critics are raising concerns over how her religious beliefs will influence her legal thinking. During her 2017 confirmation hearing, she was asked if she believed abortion is always immoral. She affirmed that's what the Catholic church teaches, but she also said that, if confirmed, her personal views would not affect her duties as a judge.

    However, in the two abortion-related cases she has heard on the appeals court she voted in favor of restrictions on abortion. She also has opposed the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, saying it's a "grave violation of religious freedom."

    But it's her personal history that shines a bright light on her pro-life views.

    Barrett is a mother of seven, including two adopted children from Haiti and a biological son with Down syndrome. She learned of the diagnosis during prenatal testing but chose to keep the baby...


    ...She's also demonstrated that her beliefs mean helping people at every stage of life. In a Washington Post column, Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead writes of a blind student who faced obstacles in her first year at the university.

    When the student asked Barrett for advice on how to get the technical help she needed, Barrett said: "This is no longer your problem. It is my problem."

    From that time on, Snead writes, Barrett took the student under her wing, mentored her, and made sure she had all the help she needed. That student became the first blind female Supreme Court clerk.


    Pro-life groups, including Americans United for Life, the Susan B. Anthony List and the Thomas More Society greeted her nomination with support.

    "She is the perfect combination of brilliant jurist and a woman who brings the argument to the court that is potentially the contrary to the views of the sitting women justices," Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List....






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    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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