Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with Donald Trump.
Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, in a statement titled “A Public Apology,” said Sunday that he had received many questions and comments — some of them distraught — about the meeting on Thursday which he and 11 other bishops attended.
He said the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.
the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.
Imagine being so naive to believe that it wouldn’t be politicized - or that the White House believed in consent.
“Here, let me take a photo with this politician. I’m sure he wouldn’t politicize it, right?”
But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Catholic clergy are gullible. Practically a job requirement, right?
These bishops are mostly rightwingers, so they’re playing a delicate balancing act between kissing Trump’s incontinent ass and not pissing off Pope Bob enough to get fired.
Shut up, trying to have your cake and eat it too. You knew exactly what would happen at this meeting.
Not exactly the first time a bishop has lied to my face though.
They’re already going against their own scripture by praying publicly, they’re going to let themselves be photographed doing so, at the white house of a narcissistic idiot savant self-promoter politician, and they’re surprised that the picture was released publicly for political purposes?
I call shenanigans. They obviously knew, thought they’d get away with it without blowback, and are now in damage control mode.
They would have to be absolute morons to believe it would be “used” any other way.
US Catholic bishops are far more right-wing than Catholic bishops elsewhere in the world, and they have long interfered in politics to support rightwing causes including MAGA. But it seems now that they’re embarrassed to be seen near Trump.
More rats leaving a ship that’s holed below the water line.
You’d think they would have avoided him just because of trump being a pedophile. It’s bad for their PR to bring up all of the sexual abuse stuff again.
You’d think they would have avoided him just because of trump being a pedophile.
The Catholic Church has never had an issue with paedophiles before, so why start now?
Birds of a feather…
yeah theres just something about trumps vibe that church leaders really adore.
I wasn’t aware it went anywhere.
How fucking stupid must you be to not realize that everything to do with them is going to be publicity or altered or used for their own gains?
We’re talking about people who are stupid enough to believe in the Catholic Church here.
No, the regret it now that it’s not as favorable to align with him. I’m so fucking tired of this born-yesterday BS these people pull out every time.
We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this after Trump’s gone. Everyone will be like “wha?! He was a conman?”
Why the fuck else did these utter idiots think one of the least Christian men on Planet earth would invite them for a prayer meeting ?
His own guys consider him the antichrist ffs. Its so weird they choose to do this.
Who could have foreseen that a politician will be doing politics?
Bullshit. They were adults when it was all over the news that trump gassed a church, making the pastor run for cover in order to hold a bible for a photo op. No way they weren’t aware this is who he is.
They got some negative feedback and have buyer’s remorse, that is all. No empathy or humanity except the performative South Park rubbing-my-nipples kind of ‘I’m sorry’ after the fact. It’s so pathetically transparent.
Well, maybe they’ll endorse Democrats, instead, now?
Nah. No chance.
I doubt they would or they wouldn’t have gone to the White House in the first place, but to play devil’s advocate wouldn’t intentionally getting involved in politics cause trouble for the nonprofit status of their churches or is that not how that works?
Not how it works. Claiming you’re a church is a get out of jail, or in this case taxes, free card. Just like with the “church” of Scientology, if those scam artists haven’t lost tax free status there’s no way in hell the Catholic church is in any danger.
Besides, the Cathoilic church (and most other churches in the US) have been neck deep in politics here for many decades if not a century at this point.
Edit: also to clarify churches in the US are not non-profit, they’re just tax exempt.
Scientology keeps its tax-exempt status because it directly infiltrated and attacked the IRS.
Catholicism doesn’t need to.
We’ll have exactly the same problems (worse by then) when Dems sweep in next presidency, probably with a zionist at the head of the Democratic party, backed by corporatists money. The Dems wont save us, we’ll have to muddle through ourselves somehow. This is why so many people are looking to coerce the dems to be better rather than focussing solely on republican crimes to the exclusion of the bigger picture.
We sure did well by not punishing the last set of confederate traitors.
There needs to be real consequences or the fascists will keep doing it.
Religious morons need to shut up and keep their “expertise” to memorizing made-up hysterical fairy tales.
Like those bitches haven’t made their religion political since day one…
What, the rebranded Holy Roman Empire is political‽
