The Archbishop of Washington put it a little bit more politely but that’s pretty much what he said:
President Trump paid a visit on Tuesday to the St. John Paul II National Shrine, a Catholic religious site in northeast Washington. But just before he arrived, the archbishop of Washington made it starkly clear that the visit was not a welcome one.
“I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people, even those with whom we might disagree,” Archbishop Wilton Gregory, the first African-American to hold the post, wrote in a statement.
This was almost certainly a Bill Barr/Pat Cippolone special. They’re bot affiliated with the right wing group Opus Dei, although Barr claims not to be a formal member.
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