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Oct 28, 2020 · With the confirmation of now Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Oct. 27, there are now six practicing Catholic justices. Barrett joins Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Two-thirds of the current Supreme Court were raised in the Catholic faith, though Catholics make up only about 20 percent of the U.S. population. Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University ...
Apr 8, 2022 · The remaining six justices -- John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett -- are Catholic. Thus, the court will consist of six Catholics, two Protestants, and one Jew. This is not reflective of the U.S. population, as has been widely discussed in recent years.
A majority Catholic court. Today, six of the nine justices are Catholic — if you count Neil Gorsuch, who was raised Catholic and has attended an Episcopal Church.The other three are Jewish.
Aug 19, 2022 · James Carroll writes that the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade is part of a long history of ultra-conservatives in the Catholic Church rejecting Galileo, Darwin, and Americanism.
Oct 19, 2020 · For the first 190 years of its existence, from 1790 to 1980, the religious divisions that defined the court were denominational in nature rather than ideological. Of the 101 men appointed to the ...
