The EWTN News portal reports that the conciliar “archbishop” of Milwaukee, Jeffrey Grob, issued a “public apology” on October 25, 2026, for his participation in a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump three days prior. Grob, along with eleven other conciliar “bishops,” attended a gathering organized by the Masonic Heritage Foundation to discuss “immigration enforcement, religious worker visas, and human dignity.” The event, initially billed as private, was exploited by the administration for political propaganda when photos and video of the “bishops” praying behind Trump in the Oval Office were disseminated without their alleged consent. Grob claims his “intention was never to cause confusion, anger, or disappointment,” while Denver “archbishop” James Golka defended the spectacle, asserting “this is what Catholics do. We pray for people.” This sordid episode lays bare the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect: its hierarchy, devoid of any supernatural mission, grovels before temporal power, prostituting the sacred for a mess of political pottage.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar Episcopate
The very subjects of this farce — Grob, Golka, and their ten colleagues — possess no legitimate authority in the Church of Christ. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by the Modernist antipope John XXIII in 1958, the sacramental rites of episcopal consecration and priestly ordination have been corrupted by the novel rites of Paul VI, rendering them doubtful at best, invalid at worst. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto (Canon 188.4; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice); the entire conciliar hierarchy, by its public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), has severed itself from the Catholic Church. They are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican. Their “apologies” and “prayers” are the acts of private individuals, not of sacred pastors.
Violation of the Social Kingship of Christ
The meeting itself constitutes a public repudiation of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, solemnly defined by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925). That encyclical declares: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Instead of demanding that the President of the United States submit to the Kingship of Christ and govern according to God’s law, these conciliar hirelings entered the Oval Office as supplicants for “religious worker visas” and “immigration enforcement” policies — purely naturalistic, temporal concerns. They thereby inverted the divine order: Non est potestas nisi a Deo (Rom 13:1). By seeking favors from the secular arm without any reference to the rights of Christ the King, they ratified the very “laicism” and “secularism” which Pius XI condemned as the “plague that poisons human society.”
Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The agenda — “immigration enforcement, religious worker visas, and human dignity” — reveals the anthropocentric inversion of the conciliar “church.” There is no mention of the salvation of souls, the conversion of the nation to the true Faith, the condemnation of abortion or sodomy, or the restoration of Christ’s reign over civil legislation. This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 59: “Right consists in the material fact… all human duties are an empty word”) and by the Syllabus of Errors (prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — condemned). The “bishops” function as lobbyists for a secular NGO, not as Principes Ecclesiae. Their “human dignity” is the dignitas humana of the Masonic lodges, severed from the imago Dei restored by grace.
The Masonic Heritage Foundation Connection
The meeting was organized by the Heritage Foundation, a think-tank deeply enmeshed in the Americanist, liberal, and Masonic network that has directed US policy for decades. The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” and its “disinformation strategy”; the Heritage Foundation operates in the same sphere: Stage 3 (1958-2000): “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The conciliar “bishops” collaborating with this entity are not “duped” but complicit. They are the clerico-liberal societies condemned in the Syllabus (Section IV), “frequently reprobated in the severest terms.”
Idolatry in the Oval Office
The photograph of “bishops” standing behind the President, hands raised in prayer, is an idolatrous tableau. It signifies the subordination of the spiritual to the temporal, the Church to the State — precisely the error of Caesaropapism condemned by the First Vatican Council and the Syllabus (prop. 54: “Kings and princes are not only exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction”). The “prayer” offered was not the Oratio Imperata for the conversion of a pagan ruler, but a blessing bestowed upon the status quo of a Masonic republic. As Pius XI wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” This spectacle is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The “Apology” as Political Damage Control
Grob’s “apology” — “I apologize for any damage my actions have done” — is the language of a corporate CEO managing a PR crisis, not of a bishop mourning a scandal to the Faith. He expresses “heavy sadness… over the pain I caused,” but zero sorrow for the offense to the Divine Majesty committed by legitimizing a godless state. He worries about “messages of serious concern over the possibility that I had inadvertently participated in a political event less than two weeks before a national election.” The timing reveals the motive: electoral politics, not eternity. Golka’s defense — “We pray for people… However you vote, you ultimately belong to Jesus” — is the quintessence of indifferentism (Syllabus, prop. 16, 17, 18), reducing the Kingship of Christ to a private sentiment compatible with any political choice.
EWTN: Propaganda Organ of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News, functions as the official propaganda organ of the conciliar sect. Its reporting — neutral, bureaucratic, devoid of any supernatural critique — normalizes the apostasy. It treats the “archbishops” as legitimate authorities, the “White House meeting” as a newsworthy ecclesiastical event, and the “apology” as a pastoral act. This is the lex orandi, lex credendi of the New Advent: the liturgy of the press conference replaces the Sacrosanctum Sacrificium; the “common good” replaces the Gloria Dei.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs
This episode is a microcosm of the post-conciliar catastrophe: a false hierarchy, invalidly ordained, heretical in doctrine, servile to the world, using the sacred as a prop for political theater. The true Church of Christ — Una, Sancta, Catholica, Apostolica — endures only in those bishops and priests who maintain the integral Faith, the traditional rites, and the Social Kingship of Christ, rejecting all communion with the usurpers in Rome and their local agents. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not the name of Trump, nor Biden, nor the Heritage Foundation, nor the “pope” Leo XIV. The conciliar “bishops” have their reward: the thirty pieces of silver of media relevance. The faithful must flee to the mountains (Matt 24:16) — to the Mass of All Time, to the true Sacraments, to the bishops who have not bent the knee to Baal.
Source:
Milwaukee Archbishop Grob issues ‘public apology’ over White House meeting (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.10.2026