The United States Bishops have denounced the faith-based harassment of judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett for her Christian beliefs as “anti-Catholic bigotry.”

Prof. Barrett holds a named chair of law at the University of Notre Dame and is also the mother of seven children. She was recently appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

In her confirmation hearing earlier this week, Prof. Barrett was grilled on her Catholic faith by several Democratic Senators, in what many commentators suggest bordered on a religious test for public office, which is expressly forbidden by Article VI of the U.S. Constitution.

In a formal statement,…