title: A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics
author:  Todd Scribner 
description: TODD SCRIBNER is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC.
zlib_text: THE INTERNATIONAL 
  CATHOLIC WEEKLY
  www.thetablet.co.uk     Est. 1840
  3 OCTOBER 2020  £3.80
  Christopher Lamb
  The cardinal sacked for 
  a breach of trust
  Patrick Marnham
  The Catholics who deﬁ ed the 
  Nazis – and their bishops
  Mark Lawson
  A new biography reveals 
  Tom Stoppard’s splinter of ice
  Julia Langdon
  Chronic uncertainty 
  in Westminster
  The art of sin
  Laura Gascoigne is tempted by a new exhibition 
  
  2  |  THE TABLET  |  3 OCTOBER 2020
  C
  atholic legislators all over the world will be 
  watching with particular interest as President 
  Trump’s latest nominee for the United States 
  Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 
  progresses through the Senate approval process. Both 
  she and the Democratic candidate in November’s 
  presidential election, Joe Biden, are practising 
  Catholics. Both therefore stand astride a fault line 
  where the doctrines of their faith rub roughly against 
  the requirements of the secular democratic process.  
  Both believe, in line with Catholic teaching, that 
  aborti