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Welcome to Monday. President Donald Trump announces his Supreme Court pick. John
Carr says he is backing Joe Biden. An up-close account of the trial of Cardinal
George Pell is published.
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Don't you wish Trump had picked a Methodist for the Supreme Court? [[link removed]]
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The president's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court raises
all sorts of issues, says NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters.
"The decision to move forward with hearings and a vote, though undoubtedly within
the constitutional prerogative of the president and Senate, reeks of hypocrisy so
clearly, even I was taken aback," he writes.
The Republicans have the votes and there will be no stopping this nomination. Therefore,
the Democrats should think long and hard about how they seek to obstruct it.
"They have a knack for shooting themselves in the foot, mistaking the mindset of
their woke advisers and Twitter followers for the views of the American people,"
Winters says. "... Barrett's religion is already playing a central role in the debate
about her nomination. While I am sympathetic to some of the concerns raised at Politico
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by theologian Massimo Faggioli about Barrett's involvement with the charismatic
group People of Praise, Senate Democrats should be careful."
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More background:

* President Donald Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett [[link removed]]
as the U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
* Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been involved with People of Praise [[link removed]],
a group that grew out of the 1970s Catholic charismatic revival.
* NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters examines how Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death will affect the election [[link removed]].
* All of NCR's 2020 election coverage can be found here [[link removed]].
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Backing Biden, John Carr calls out political misuse of bishops' voting guide [[link removed]]
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John Carr may not be a household name for most U.S. Catholics, but for a quarter
century as the top policy advisor for the U.S. bishops, he's been a dominant force
working on the Affordable Care Act, the church's response to the clergy abuse crisis
and more.
Carr was there when the U.S. Catholic bishops updated their official voting guide
ahead of the 2008 presidential election. One bishop suggested striking language
from the document that named racism as an "intrinsic evil."
While Carr told NCR that the suggestion was made "in good faith" and sincere belief
that the country had made serious progress on fighting racism, it's now that very
issue that is one of the primary reasons Carr penned an essay [[link removed]]
saying there are "morally grave" reasons why he's voting for former Vice President
Joe Biden over President Donald Trump.
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More background:

* While John Kerry calls himself "a believing, practicing Catholic," he chose not
to emphasize that in his 2004 presidential campaign. But Joe Biden's faith is an
essential part of his 2020 campaign's narrative, writes John Kenneth White, a professor
of politics at the Catholic University of America [[link removed]].
* The November 2019 U.S. bishops' meeting revealed division among the bishops over
how to influence political debate [[link removed]].
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* Melissa Davey, Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief, spent hours in court
during Cardinal George Pell's trial. Her resulting volume, The Case of George Pell:
Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy [[link removed]],
is an invaluable resource.
* At Global Sisters Report, read a profile of Sr. Mary Flood [[link removed]],
who spends her days trying to contain the coronavirus, drawing on her experiences
as a doctor during the height of the 1980s AIDS crisis and her past in virus research.
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Final thoughts
Join us for a Facebook Live event at 1:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday [[link removed]]
as EarthBeat editor Barbara Fraser and staff writer Brian Roewe talk with Tom Lovejoy.
Lovejoy coined the term "biodiversity," has warned of climate "tipping points" and
advised presidential administrations from both parties on science and public policy.
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Until Tuesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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