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“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others…When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.” /NGp1ff06kU READ MORE: Trump slams governors as ‘weak,’ urges crackdown on protestsĪBC News reporter Terry Moran took to Twitter to match the presidential Bible-thumping, with some actual scripture, quoting the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 6.
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“ all the things that we need and deserve from anyone who is leadership, spiritual or political at this time.” She says, “He did nothing to say to them that your future is before you and I will protect you and do all that we can to make this country worthy of you.” I am your President of law and order and an ally of peaceful protesters.” She also serves as the chair and president of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, overseeing the ministries of the Washington National Cathedral and Cathedral schools.Įarlier on Monday, Trump said, “I will fight to protect you. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)īishop Budde serves as the spiritual leader for 88 Episcopal congregations and ten Episcopal schools in the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties and the first woman elected to this position.
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John’s Episcopal Church on June 01, 2020, in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump posed for photographs in front of St. Members of the Secret Service counter-assault team return to the White House after U.S. He did not come to pray,” the bishop noted. John or regularly at any of the churches in our diocese.” He is not a man of prayer on Sunday morning,” she revealed. On CNN’s New Day with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman, when asked if “the president is a frequent visitor to St. But he did none of those things” /Szh9VCxaj1 But, he did none of those things.”īishop Budde on President Trump’s visit: “If he had come to offer words of solace and healing and resolve, to bind the wounds of our nation, that would have been an appropriate use of the sacred symbol of walking across the park to the church. In fact, no one associated with the church knew that he was coming or understood why the visit was made.īishop Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, seemed perplexed when interviewed on MSNBC, “If he had come to offer words of solace, healing, and resolve … that would have been an appropriate use of the sacred symbol of walking across the park to the church. Yet he did not address meeting the needs of that sacred space. John’s Church had recently suffered a fire in the basement where a Sunday School daycare was previously housed. Religion should not be used as a political tool.