Barrett, who is Catholic, said that 'like racism, I think discrimination is abhorrent.' The Catholic Church teaches, however, that there is such as thing as 'just discrimination'
‘If I express a view on a precedent one way or another, whether I say I love it or I hate it, it signals to litigants that I might tilt one way or another in a pending case,’ Barrett said.
‘Is it really worth it, some of these measures? That’s a question we need to ask,’ the Catholic Medical Association discussed in light of Catholic social teaching.