There Is No 'Religious Persecution' Here

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Much of what has been written about Amy Coney Barrett—whose confirmation hearing to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is currently underway— has investigated whether Barrett belongs to a Charismatic Catholic group called People of Praise, and examines the similarities between People of Praise and other Charismatic Catholic groups that may have inspired Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. But what these comparisons of her religious affiliations to Atwood’s novel miss is the fact that, in reality, Amy Coney Barrett herself has become a lightning rod for fears from both the left and right. On the left, is the plausible fear that Barrett, a former member of “University Faculty for Life” at Notre Dame University, will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. On the right, a refusal to appoint Barrett to the Supreme Court on any grounds would provide a platform for Republicans to drum up some manufactured panic from its anti-abortion, religious voters by claiming religious persecution from the left. All of this does exactly what it is intended to do—sew the seeds of chaos in the days before the election and divide Catholic voters, often along racial lines.\n

“Race is a big part of it,” says Dr. Tricia Bruce, an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society and adjunct research associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas, San Antonio. “I think it’s sort of playing to a white Catholic base that is not dissimilar to what we saw the base of Trump supporters he was able to mobilize in Pennsylvania—begrudged, persecuted, victimized, that same sort of narrative, pushed to the back of the line.

The story of People of Praise’s origins is also the story of differing conversations between Catholic voters in America. People of Praise is a charismatic group that describes itself as non-denominational, though many of its members are also Catholic.

1,800 members in 22 cities across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. In much of the writing about the group, its commitment to Pauline ideas around order and structure has come under a microscope, with many publications pointing out that “In a marriage, we look at the husband as the head of the family. And that’s consistent with New Testament teaching,” said Clark, who is the head of Trinity Academy in Portland, Oregon [named a “National Blue Ribbon School “by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and which also recently boasted Barrett as a board member]. “This role of the husband as the head of the family is not a position of power or domination. It’s really quite the opposite. It’s a position of care and service and responsibility.

 

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