{"id":87825,"date":"2026-10-26T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87825"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:18:44","slug":"bishops-regret-oval-office-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/bishops-regret-oval-office-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops Regret Oval Office Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Donald Trump.\u00a0Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, in <span style=\"color: #000000;\">a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archmil.org\/posts\/a-public-apology-archbishop-jeffrey-grob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">statement<\/a><\/span> titled \u201cA Public Apology,\u201d said Sunday that he had received many questions and comments \u2014 some of them distraught \u2014 about the meeting on Thursday which he and 11 other bishops attended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/elections\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">midterm elections<\/a><\/span>. \u201cI feel a heavy sadness, not only over the pain I caused, but also for the fact that something so sacred to a group of religious leaders, prayer to our Heavenly Father, would be manipulated in that way,\u201d Grob said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed.<\/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-87825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825","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=87825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87826,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87825\/revisions\/87826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}