{"id":87776,"date":"2026-10-24T08:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87776"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:19:41","slug":"denver-archbishop-explains-oval-office-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/denver-archbishop-explains-oval-office-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Archbishop Explains Oval Office Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Catholic News Agency:<\/em><\/p>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-gcz3h73\" class=\"lkQt0 _1nK5N D5Imq oUcKW\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"gcz3h73\"><span class=\"_4K-BC\">Months ago, Denver Archbishop James Golka received a special invitation: to meet alongside other Catholic bishops with Trump Administration officials at the White House to discuss topics of concern to Catholics. Following the meeting, organized by the White House Faith Office \u2014 not by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) \u2014\u202f the bishops were to have a few moments with President Trump in the Oval Office and were invited to pray with the president.\u00a0 <\/span>The invitation came following a June meeting in which faith leaders raised issues of serious concern, including immigration, religious freedom\u00a0and visas for religious workers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"gcz3h73\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what to do. On one hand, it was a great opportunity to raise important issues for the Church\u2019s benefit. On the other hand, I knew people might be upset. Though I originally thought it would be a private meeting, I knew that it could be shared and that some might use it for political purposes,\u201d the archbishop said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Denver Archbishop James Golka Prays Over President Trump\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOtHPRlK_pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic News Agency: Months ago, Denver Archbishop James Golka received a special invitation: to meet alongside other Catholic bishops.<\/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-87776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87776","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=87776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87777,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87776\/revisions\/87777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}