the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.

Imagine being so naive to believe that it wouldn't be politicized - or that the White House believed in consent.

Shut up, trying to have your cake and eat it too. You knew exactly what would happen at this meeting.

Not exactly the first time a bishop has lied to my face though.

They're already going against their own scripture by praying publicly, they're going to let themselves be photographed doing so, at the white house of a narcissistic idiot savant self-promoter politician, and they're surprised that the picture was released publicly for political purposes?

I call shenanigans. They obviously knew, thought they'd get away with it without blowback, and are now in damage control mode.

They would have to be absolute morons to believe it would be "used" any other way.

US Catholic bishops are far more right-wing than Catholic bishops elsewhere in the world, and they have long interfered in politics to support rightwing causes including MAGA. But it seems now that they're embarrassed to be seen near Trump.

More rats leaving a ship that's holed below the water line.

How fucking stupid must you be to not realize that everything to do with them is going to be publicity or altered or used for their own gains?

You'd think they would have avoided him just because of trump being a pedophile. It's bad for their PR to bring up all of the sexual abuse stuff again.

No, the regret it now that it's not as favorable to align with him. I'm so fucking tired of this born-yesterday BS these people pull out every time.

We're going to be seeing a lot more of this after Trump's gone. Everyone will be like "wha?! He was a conman?"

Why the fuck else did these utter idiots think one of the least Christian men on Planet earth would invite them for a prayer meeting ?

Who could have foreseen that a politician will be doing politics?

Bullshit. They were adults when it was all over the news that trump gassed a church, making the pastor run for cover in order to hold a bible for a photo op. No way they weren’t aware this is who he is.

They got some negative feedback and have buyer’s remorse, that is all. No empathy or humanity except the performative South Park rubbing-my-nipples kind of ‘I’m sorry’ after the fact. It’s so pathetically transparent.

Well, maybe they'll endorse Democrats, instead, now?

Nah. No chance.

Like those bitches haven't made their religion political since day one...

Religious morons need to shut up and keep their "expertise" to memorizing made-up hysterical fairy tales.

I cant beleive these bishops could possibly be that dumb. Its impossible. They exactly knew what they were doing. These are the same kind of church officials who collaborated with the nazis.. They are just sad they are getting any blowback from it.

I say excommunicate the lot of them, or at least remove their titles and park them in a monestary for a few years to farm carrots. This is a glaring signal in the sky that the American catholic church needs to be under better management and the rotten ones need to be taken out by the roots. Its not a time for half measures.

I wonder if they had a call (indirectly) from the Pope asking what the fuck they were thinking.

Trump tricked me!

What a lie, they knew. Now they regret because of the optics.

Article about a picture...doesn't show the picture.

It's not their fault. It's in their nature to support pedophiles.

surprised that things done with a gov are political? lol.

There might legit be riots if a president ever got on their knees and prayed to Allah in the oval office. Like no joke I think that would break some people.

Voting R stands for so much, R for regret, red, republican, retarded.

History will look back on this as the seed of the second inquisition.

Something something leopard faces.

Bishops are better politicians than politicians. They knew.