One advantage of holding nomination hearings before the election, especially if Amy Barret is the nominee, is having the democrats talk about Catholics and abortion in public. The ads could write themselves.
My perspective on this is that there are TWO factions in the Catholic world, similar to the problem the Jews have.
There are liberals as well as conservatives.
Currently the Pope is a Commie from Argentina, but from a long term perspective the Church goes on and there are changes.
The Church was very corrupt in the Early middle Ages and that led to the Germans and others (Jan Hus - Check) leading the way for a split.
Today is no different.