{"id":87722,"date":"2026-10-23T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87722"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:21:45","slug":"denver-archbisops-and-six-other-bishops-pay-visit-to-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/denver-archbisops-and-six-other-bishops-pay-visit-to-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Archbisops And Seven Other Bishops Pay Visit To Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From EWTN:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Denver <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/world\/us\/i-m-just-a-guy-from-nebraska-archbishop-golka-reflects-on-unexpected-call-to-lead-denver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Archbishop James Golka<\/a> <\/span>and over half a dozen fellow U.S. Catholic bishops met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 22.\u00a0In addition to praying with Trump, Korn said several topics were discussed during the meeting, including \u201creligious freedom, the role of the White House Faith Office, school choice, religious visas, and life policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Participants included Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles; Bishop Edward Burns of Dallas; Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico; Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas; Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, Iowa; Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee; and Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, of Oakland, California.\u00a0Before concluding the meeting, Golka and his brother bishops gathered around Trump at the Oval Office\u2019s iconic Resolute desk to pray.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Denver Archbishop James Golka Prays Over President Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOtHPRlK_pA\" width=\"1101\" height=\"795\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN: Denver Archbishop James Golka and over half a dozen fellow U.S. Catholic bishops met with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87754,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87722\/revisions\/87754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}