By Townhall Chicago News Staff
Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob expressed regret this week after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, drawing a defense from the Archbishop of Denver.
Grob was one of at least two Catholic bishops who expressed regret after the meeting, according to a radio interview with Mary Fiorito, Cardinal Francis George Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The second bishop was not identified in the interview.
“It sounds to me like they are being pressured from outside sources to apologize and back away from their experience with the president,” Fiorito said.
The Archbishop of Denver issued a statement defending the meeting, saying Catholic clergy pray with any president regardless of politics, according to the interview.
Fiorito compared the bishops’ response to that of a separate group of Black pastors who met with Trump and later said they disagreed with him on many issues but viewed prayer as their primary role in the meeting.
Grob leads the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Additional details on the White House meetings, including their date and the identity of the second bishop, were not available.
