The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal reports that on October 22, 2026, a delegation of seven conciliar “bishops,” led by Denver “Archbishop” James Golka, entered the Oval Office to meet with President Donald Trump. The meeting, orchestrated by the White House Faith Office under Jenny Korn, featured discussions on “religious freedom, school choice, religious visas, and life policy,” culminating in a prayer led by Golka thanking God for the “gift of our beautiful nation,” the “gift of this office of the presidency,” and invoking the Holy Spirit to “protect us against any influence of evil.” The USCCB disavowed organizational involvement, while Trump’s Protestant “spiritual adviser,” Paula White-Cain, participated. This grotesque spectacle of conciliar prelates beseeching a secular potentate for policy concessions exposes the total collapse of the Church’s supernatural mission into sordid political clientelism.
The Nullity of the Actors: Manifest Heretics Deprived of Office Ipso Facto
The individuals presented as “Archbishops” and “Bishops” — Golka, Zaidan, Burns, Wall, Naumann, Joensen, Grob, Barber — are not successors of the Apostles in any juridical or sacramental reality. By their public adhesion to the conciliar sect’s heresies — religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the New Mass — they have publicly defected from the Catholic faith. According to Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code, confirmed by the constant teaching of the Fathers and Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” This principle applies a fortiori to the episcopate. These men hold no jurisdiction, no sacramental character validly exercised for the Church, and no authority to teach or govern. They are functionaries of the “abomination of desolation” occupying the Vatican structures since 1958.
Communicatio in Sacris: The Scandal of Joint Prayer with Heretics and Infidels
The climax of this sordid meeting was the prayer led by Golka around the Resolute Desk.
Leading the intercession, Archbishop Golka thanked God “for the gift of our beautiful nation, the gift of our government, and the gift of this office of the presidency” and asked for God’s blessing upon Trump. Continuing his prayer, Archbishop Golka also thanked God for “the gift of your Son, Jesus. He’s right here with us. He redeems us, saves us, gives us immense mercy, guidance.” Archbishop Golka also invoked the Holy Spirit, asking the Holy Spirit to “surround our country, to protect us against any influence of evil.”
This is communicatio in sacris in its most flagrant form, expressly condemned by the immutable law of the Church (Canon 1258, 1917 Code; Pius XI, Mortalium Animos). Golka prays with Donald Trump — a man who publicly supports in vitro fertilization (IVF), the industrial manufacture and destruction of human embryos, and who appoints a Protestant sectarian, Paula White-Cain, as his “spiritual adviser.” White-Cain, a purveyor of the “prosperity gospel” heresy, stood inside the Oval Office while a putative “Catholic Archbishop” invoked the Holy Trinity. There is no “prayer in common” where faith is not one. As Pius XI thundered in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church… cannot participate in the assemblies of non-Catholics… for to do so would be to give countenance to a false Christianity.” This was not prayer; it was a photo-op for the civil religion of the Americanist heresy.
The Kingship of Christ Denied: Secularism Enthroned in the Oval Office
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The encyclical declares: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness, let them not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.”
Golka’s prayer does the exact opposite. It sanctifies the secular order. By thanking God for the “gift of this office of the presidency” without demanding the social reign of Christ the King — the explicit confession of Christ’s rights over legislation, education, and public morals — Golka ratifies the Masonic separation of Church and State condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and by Leo XIII in Immortale Dei. The “religious freedom” discussed is the very error condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos) and Pius IX (Quanta Cura) as “liberty of perdition.” The “school choice” advocated is a mere crumb thrown to a Church that has abandoned its duty to demand Catholic confessional states where the civil power submits to the Divine Kingship.
The “Life Policy” Compromise: IVF and the Betrayal of the Innocent
The article admits “sharp disagreements… including the president’s support of IVF.” Yet these “bishops” sat, prayed, and smiled. This is the “policy in action” of the conciliar sect: collaboration with evil. IVF is an intrinsic evil (malum in se), constituting the usurpation of God’s creative prerogative and the mass murder of embryonic human beings. A true bishop, a true successor of the Apostles, would have denounced Trump publicly, refused the meeting, or used it solely to call him to conversion and the abolition of IVF, on pain of excommunication (Canon 2350, 1917 Code). Instead, the conciliar “bishops” trade the blood of the innocents for access to power, validating the “culture of death” they claim to oppose. Their “pro-life” posture is a fraud, a political bargaining chip, devoid of the sensus Catholicus that recognizes no compromise with Moloch.
The USCCB: A Masonic Bureaucracy, Not an Episcopate
The USCCB spokesperson, Chieko Noguchi, hastily distanced the conference:
“This was not something that the USCCB organized. It is not affiliated with the Conference.”
This bureaucratic disclaimer reveals the truth: the USCCB is a civil corporation, a lobbying arm of the neo-church, structured on the democratic, collegial model of Freemasonry, not the monarchical hierarchy established by Christ. It has no canonical mission. Its “bishops” are managers of a social service agency. The fact that the White House Faith Office — a creation of the secular state to manage religion as a department of civil society — “organized” the meeting proves the total subordination of the conciliar hierarchy to the temporal power, the very error condemned in the Syllabus (Error 20: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government”).
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Neo-Church as Handmaid of the Antichrist
This event is not an anomaly; it is the essence of the post-conciliar religion. The “bishops” of the Novus Ordo sect have no supernatural faith. They are political operators managing a declining religious demographic for the benefit of the globalist system (whether “conservative” or “liberal” wing). Their prayer in the Oval Office is the culmination of the Americanist heresy condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae): the adaptation of the Church to the spirit of the Republic, the replacement of the City of God with the City of Man.
“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.” — Pius XI, Quas Primas (citing Ubi Arcano)
The faithful remnant must recognize that no grace, no jurisdiction, no truth proceeds from these usurpers of the episcopal chair. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The only remedy is the restoration of the Catholic priesthood and episcopate in continuity with Tradition, the rejection of the conciliar sect entirely, and the prayer for the Social Reign of Christ the King which alone can save nations. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” But these hirelings have sold the Kingdom for a moment at the Resolute Desk.
Source:
US Catholic Bishops Pray With President Trump (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.10.2026