The reemergence of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a top contender for the Supreme Court has renewed scrutiny of a religious organization shes reported to have been involved with.

Barrett is widely considered to be a front-runner for the seat on the Supreme Court that became vacant after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg s death on Friday. The 48-year-old judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, poised to become a reliably conservative voice on the nations highest court for decades to come, has described herself as a faithful Catholic.

Her religious identity is nothing new for the court in fact, five of the eight justices on the court now are Roman Catholics. (Two are Jewish, and one is Episcopalian.)

But in addition to belonging to the largest religious denomination in the country, Barrett also appears to have ties to People of Praise, a religious group that until recently referred to its female leaders as handmaids evoking comparisons to Margaret Atwoods dystopian novel The Handmaids Tale.

After President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to the 7th Circuit in 2017, The New York Times published an article in which unnamed members of the group alleged that Barrett and her husband belonged to People of Praise. The article included a photograph, captured from a page of the groups magazine, that showed Barrett attending a womens gathering.

That photograph and other references to Barrett were scrubbed from People of Praises website, the Times reported in 2017.

In a questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee after her nomination, Barrett indicated that she had once been a trustee for a school run by People of Praise. Trustees of the school must be members, according to The Times.

People of Praise has declined to confirm or deny Barretts membership in the group.

Like most religious communities, the People of Praise leaves it up to its members to decide whether to publicly disclose their involvement in our community, Sean Connolly, the groups communications director, told HuffPost.