I’d prefer Opus Dei.
The charismatic movement was at its zenith when I attended Notre Dame in the 1970s; they once had a Mass and religious rally that drew a very large crowd to Notre Dame Stadium in the mid 1970s. I ran with that group (did not know that they used the name “People of Praise”) for about a year.
I also encountered Opus Dei at Notre Dame; now as then, they operate a residence for men, Windmoor House, on Notre Dame Avenue, a couple of blocks south of campus. I attended a retreat they put on when I was a freshman in 1972.
I’m really rooting for President Trump to nominate Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court. She has a number of intangibles that in my view make her the “front runner”, in addition to being a brilliant woman and mother of seven children; Trump’s white house counsel, Don McGahn, came from Jones Day; Jones Day are outside counsel to the University of Notre Dame; McGahn is an ND alumnus; the one time managing partner of Jones Day, Patrick McCartan, was also the chairman of the board of trustees of ND; Joe Donnelly, ‘Rat from Indiana, is a double domer (meaning he got degrees from both the undergraduate and law schools at ND); Joe’s wife Jill (a classmate of mine and an extremely nice person) has been a career employee at ND, and has served (and may still serve) as a fund raiser for the Notre Dame Law School. I can’t see how Joe votes against Amy. I also can’t see how Heidi Heitkamp and Claire McCaskill vote against her; anti-Catholic bias will absolutely destroy any chance that either of these two have of being re-elected.
Not me. In general, they have good feelings, but when push comes to shove, I’m not confident that they would have my back.