Federal appeals judge Amy Barrett, who was on the short-list this month for a possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, will headline the convention of a national association of Catholic attorneys this October.
Barrett, a judge on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, will speak at the the Catholic Bar Association’s third annual meeting, which will coincide with the Oct. 13 Red Mass of the Diocese of Dallas. Barrett is a Catholic, the mother of seven children, and was formerly a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.
Other speakers at the two-day conference include Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Bishop Edward Burns of Dallas, and author Mary Rice Hasson.
The Catholic Bar Association was established in 2015 by Missouri attorney Joshua McCaig. Its inaugural conference drew more 200 attorneys, law students, and judges from 27 states, according to the Catholic Key.
The group says its mission is to help lawyers uphold Catholic principles in legal practice, to help the Church to teach Catholic legal principles, to support Catholic attorneys in faithful and ethical legal practice, and to build a network of “mutual support and understanding” among Catholic legal professionals.
The Catholic Bar Association says that families are welcome to attend the 2018 conference. Law professionals and students can register on the organization’s website.
Full story at Catholic News Agency.
Catholic Bar Association established 2015… I would have thought there has been a Catholic Lawyers group since approximately 1900. Can a lawyer out there shed some light on this?
re Amy Barrett’s treatment at the hands
of “liberal” Senator Feinstein:
Acts 5:41
“And they indeed went from the presence
of the council, rejoicing that they were
accounted worthy to suffer reproach for
the name of Jesus.”