{"id":87861,"date":"2026-10-27T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87861"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:12:13","slug":"white-house-defends-use-of-bishops-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/white-house-defends-use-of-bishops-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Defends Use Of Bishops&#8217; Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1200\/675\/white-house-archbishops-prayer.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"President Donald Trump and Catholic leaders pray in the Oval Office\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">The White House on Monday defended President Donald Trump after Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob publicly apologized for participating i<span style=\"color: #000000;\">n an <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/faith-values\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Oval Office prayer<\/a> with the president, accusing the administration of using the religious gathering for political purposes less than two weeks before the midterm elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grob issued a statement Sunday titled &#8220;<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archmil.org\/posts\/a-public-apology-archbishop-jeffrey-grob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">A Public Apology<\/a>,&#8221; alleging that the White House distributed photographs and video of the Thursday prayer without the consent of the 12 participating bishops. He accused the administration of manipulating a sacred moment. The archbishop said he had received messages from Catholics concerned that the prayer appeared to constitute a political endorsement. Grob acknowledged having reservations before attending and apologized for the distress his participation caused.\u00a0White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers defended Trump&#8217;s record on religious liberty and Catholic priorities in a statement to <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_3\">Fox News Digital<\/a> following the archbishop&#8217;s public apology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: The White House on Monday defended President Donald Trump after Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob publicly apologized for.<\/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-87861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87861","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=87861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87862,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87861\/revisions\/87862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}