Catholic Nun Mother Miriam: “It Will Be an Act of God” to Elect Trump
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NEW RCP Commentary from Mick Mulvaney
What Trump Did for the Faithful
He allowed Mass and other services at the White House. Biden hasn’t done the same.
It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that Easter and Holy Week are heavily politicized these days. Everything else is. Last week we whipsawed from Donald Trump’s hawking the “God Bless the USA Bible” to President Biden’s proclamation that Easter Sunday was “transgender visibility day.”
What may be a surprise is that there are some Washington veterans who look past all that. Not because it isn’t important, but because, when it comes to religion, we know something about Messrs. Trump and Biden that most people don’t.
The story begins in February 2018, when I was director of the Office of Management and Budget. Just before Lent, I asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to relay to the president what I later learned was an unprecedented request: a Catholic Mass in the Old Executive Office Building on Ash Wednesday.
I did that in large part because Lent typically falls during crunch time for budgeteers. I knew there was at least a small group of practicing Catholics who might want to attend Mass and receive ashes that day, but who might not be able to because of work. Mr. Trump approved the request.
The result was stunning. More than 100 people showed up to the first Mass in history in the White House compound. Not all of them were from the White House. Dozens were career staffers from the nearby federal agencies who had worked under President Obama and now serve in the Biden administration.
The Mass was so successful that it continued roughly every other week until it was shut down for Covid in March 2020. When Mr. Biden took office, I encouraged members of his transition team to resume the services. I pointed out that the benefit wasn’t limited to Catholics: After the Mass started, Protestant, Muslim and Jewish services were also held on the White House campus grounds. I reminded my successors that many of those worshippers weren’t “Trump people.” They were simply people, who seemed to want religion in their daily lives.
The answer I got from the Biden team was reasonable: They would look at things “after Covid.” It’s now long after Covid, and, as you can probably guess, neither the Mass or any of the other religious services have resumed.
Perhaps we should be saddened that religion is just as politicized as anything else these days. But the Christian faith has probably been political in some sense since its founding. Like politics, however, maybe religion also falls into the category of things that are best measured not by what people say but by what they do.
Donald Trump, who in 2015 declined to name his favorite Bible verses, allowed a Catholic Mass at the White House. Joe Biden, who says he is a devout Catholic, hasn’t.
To those of us who worked there, that speaks louder than any two-for-one special on holy books or declaration praising alternative lifestyles.
Mr. Mulvaney served as director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2017-20.
He was one of the turncoats, from dear RPOTUS’ admin. Now, he's trying to slither back, to Pres Trump's good graces .... here's one story/a reminder...
Breitbart ^ | 11/15/2022 | Pam Key
Posted on 11/16/2022, 8:13:59 AM by ChicagoConservative27
Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360” that his old boss, former President Donald Trump is the only Republican who can't win the 2024 general election.
After Trump announced his candidacy, Cooper asked, “Do you think this is good for the Republican Party?”
Mulvaney said, “No, I don't. Because I think he's the only Republican who could lose. ...
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Thank you for sharing Mick Mulvaney’s story with us.
I had no idea that this happened at the WH.
ByeDone not allowing it to continue speaks volumes.
He was called a Cafeteria Catholic by a member of the cloth but I think it is worse than that.
He doesn’t just pick and choose what in Catholicism to follow he is a CINO.