Gird your loins, folks. Chances are President Trump may nominate Federal Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court in the next day or two.

If she’s his pick, holy hell will break out.

Where the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admired in publications such as The Washington Post for the way her belief in justice and equality was rooted in her Jewish heritage, Judge Barrett is already being criticized for being, well, too Catholic.

When it comes to Catholics, the left likes the kind that go to mass on Sunday and cheer for abortion the rest of the week.

Anything more in line with church teaching is regarded as religious extremism. Or rather, as Dianne Feinstein so inelegantly put it during Ms. Barrett’s 2017 hearing for the federal bench, “The dogma lives loudly within you and that is a concern.”

It may be a concern to Feinstein. For the rest of us? Not so much.

The media is already ginning up hysteria about Barrett’s membership in a religious group. It’s called People of Praise and from what I gather it’s a faith community that has no political point of view. Members engage in public service projects and support each other with prayer. There are both Catholic and Protestant members, which seems rather non-dogmatic to me. 

The women in the group used to refer to themselves as “handmaidens,” which the left has seized upon and has thrown them into a full-blown-foaming-at-the-mouth fury because they’ve all read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Or at least seen the Hulu series.

I would suggest these religious illiterates familiarize themselves with the Bible. In a passage familiar to all Christians and especially beloved by Catholics, Mary - at the Annunciation - is told by an angel that she is going to have a baby. At first she expresses bewilderment and then she replies that she is ready: “Behold the handmaiden of the Lord, be it done unto me according to your word.'"

This has nothing to do with the repulsive treatment of women in the Atwood novel, which, by the way, is a work of FICTION.

Amy Coney Barrett is, by all accounts, a brilliant woman. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rhodes College in Memphis and was first in her class at Notre Dame Law School where she was executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, practiced law for several years and has been a professor of law at Notre Dame for the past 18 years. When she was nominated for the federal bench Barrett had the support of 79 law professors from around the country, 49 Notre Dame law professors and 450 students. Yet only three Senate Democrats voted to confirm her.

Figures.

Barrett is married with seven children - no doubt the feminists will have something to say about THAT - two of whom are adopted from Haiti. Her youngest child has Down syndrome.

By all measures Barrett is an astonishingly accomplished woman. So what about her scares the left?

I guess she prays too much.