Bby Christine Niles, Church Militant - While President Trump has whittled down his Supreme Court shortlist to five, sources confirm the frontrunner is Judge Amy Coney Barrett... Amy Coney Barrett: "I am a Catholic, Sen. Durbin."... A Catholic mother of seven, with two adopted from Haiti, Barrett is considered the ideological heir of Supreme Court stalwart Antonin Scalia, himself a devout Catholic whom she used to clerk for.... She taught at Notre Dame Law School for 15 years before being nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017... Thrust into the national spotlight, her faith became front and center during judicial confirmation hearings....