From 2018: Potential Trump Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic Chicago judge and Notre Dame professor who stirs abortion debate

Opponents also have brought up Barrett’s ties to People of Praise, a group that calls on its mostly Catholic congregants to join Protestants in worship and works of service outside the church. According to online archives, Barrett and husband Jesse M. Barrett, a federal prosecutor in northern Indiana, have long been involved with the group of about 1,700 that formed in South Bend in 1971.