Chicago Sun-Times Executive Editor Chris Fusco is leaving the paper after more than 20 years.

This is a challenging time for us all, but if you're able to make a monthly donation and provide us with support we can rely on all year, please do so today. The founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Leonard Leo, was also the longtime leader of the Federalist Society, which has for decades been trying to reshape the judiciary, especially around some of these culture warrior issues like abortion and LGBT rights. And there’s a number of these other communities, that we’ve reported on at NCROnline several times: Word of God, Sword of the Spirit, Lord’s Ranch, the Mother of God Community.
She had written a law review article once saying that judges would have to recuse themselves, for example, from capital punishment cases.

She is a conservative judge, an originalist, as we would probably expect to be at the top of the list of this president and leader in this party. Members of the group pledge a lifelong loyalty oath to the group, which assigns each member a personal adviser known as “heads” for men and, until recently, “handmaids” for women. And I think many people join groups of other like-minded people.

HEIDI SCHLUMPF: Yeah.

So, the leader I spoke to back in 2018, who I believe is still the head, is Craig Lent. And then also it does have — and she has specifically spoken about her own views on abortion, on even the death penalty, in terms of church teaching on that, on gay marriage.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about this pledging of lifelong loyalty to the group, which assigns each member a personal adviser, known as “heads” for men and, until recently, “handmaids” for women. So, I can’t speak to that specifically, although, you know, it’s possible that there could be somebody nominated to the court who has that belief and it’s not known in a public way, because of — her membership in this group, it’s known. Fischer is passionate about driving science into public discussion and policy on environmental health, justice and climate issues. Why don’t you start off by telling us a brief biography of Amy Coney Barrett and what People of Praise is? So, the People of Praise is a covenanted community, which means that its members sign a covenant or make a covenant to one another. Stay safe, and thank you so much.-Amy Goodman. And as I said to the committee, I would faithfully apply all Supreme Court precedent. And I think, in your case, Professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. But within marriage, the wife’s spiritual adviser is her husband. And I think that is a fair question for her, if she were to be nominated and at a confirmation hearing. I’m not sure that I would call it a cult, but I would say that some of those concerns about authoritarianism, secrecy — it is true, I heard from a number of other members that I spoke with or chat rooms where I read what they were saying, is that when they were trying to leave the organization, there was a level of shunning of them, as well. I think there’s — it’s interesting to note that, historically, there’s nothing inherently conservative about the charismatic movement. Learn how to enable cookies. So, those kinds of secrecy things, I think, are what bring people to use language about like cults. But what you have is a setup in which these members of the community — and there are about a little under 2,000 of them in the People of Praise, spread out over various number of cities — most of them are Catholic, but it is an ecumenical group. She does at least have consistency on that pro-life issue, the capital punishment and abortion. I’ve seen some reporting that said she has been groomed for this moment since as early as her first year in law school by a group of faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School who were strongly opposed to Roe v. Wade.
She’s the executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. 379k Followers, 2,796 Following, 7,077 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Laura Brown (@laurabrown99) And Margaret Atwood has talked about various Catholic charismatic groups. Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence, “He Wants Violence in the Streets”: Trump’s “White Supremacist Project” on Full Display at Debate, “Vigilantism at the Polls”: Trump Attacks Election Integrity, Ballots & Backs Illegal Poll Watching, Kate Aronoff: The Climate Crisis Can’t Take 4 More Years of Trump. Could you talk about some of those practices? Obviously, Joe Biden and the Democrats have done a lot to reach out to religious voters, moderate religious voters, during the campaign and wouldn’t want to undo all that. Well, for more, we’re joined by Heidi Schlumpf.

So, I would say, just to take your second question first, that the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church, which goes back to like the 1970s, is something that is accepted by the Catholic Church, but not everyone who is a charismatic Catholic — “charismatic” referring to someone who has a personal experience of God, kind of directly through the Holy Spirit, and often results in different gifts of the Holy Spirit, like speaking in tongues or healing or prophecy. executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. HEIDI SCHLUMPF: Well, just to go back to the People of Hope, so, the People of Hope, I’m less familiar with — excuse me — but I would say that I have followed a number of folks who grew up in some of these covenanted communities, and there is a history of allegations, especially by folks who have chosen to leave it, of problematic authoritarianism. So, obviously, when the Senate is looking to confirm someone to such an important position, a lifelong position, I think all kinds of questions about someone’s beliefs, including their religious beliefs and their membership in certain organizations, is fair game. Catherine Nolte ('21) is the executive editor of The Threefold Advocate, JBU's student-led newspaper. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And who is the leadership of the People of Praise, given the fact that the members pledge loyalty to the group, and obviously the decisions of the leaders would have an influence, let’s say, in the case of Amy Barrett?

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