Washington Archbishop Condemns Trump's Visit To Catholic Shrine

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Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said he finds it 'baffling and reprehensible' that a Catholic facility would allow itself to be 'manipulated' in this way.

Bishop John Stowe, from the Catholic diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, also criticized Trump’s visit.

“He is trying to create a false dichotomy of peaceful protestors versus the Church. That could not be further from the truth, and any Christian who believes it does not understand Jesus’s message,” Campbell said in a statement. Rev. James Martin, editor at large of the Jesuit Catholic magazine America, also said that Trump was visiting the shrine “for another photo op at a religious site.”Demonstrators stage a protest near the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, which President Donald Trump visited on June 2 in Washington, D.C.

On Monday evening, law enforcement officials in riot gear fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators gathered at Lafayette Square to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in police custody last week in Minneapolis. The square is located right in front of St. John’s Church. Clergy who had gathered at the church to offer water and solidarity to protesters wereThe president then walked from the White House to pose with a Bible outside of St.

 

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