The National Catholic Register portal reports that the “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 “bishops” of the conciliar sect, attended a gathering organized by the Heritage Foundation to discuss “immigration enforcement, religious worker visas, and human dignity.” The “bishops” were ushered into the Oval Office, presented with “commemorative tokens,” directed to stand behind the president for a prayer, and photographed and filmed without their alleged consent. The images were promptly disseminated by the administration. Grob lamented the “confusion, anger, or disappointment among the people entrusted to my care” and the manipulation of “something so sacred… prayer to our Heavenly Father.” His fellow participant, Denver “archbishop” James Golka, who led the prayer, defended the event as simply what “Catholics do… pray for our country and leaders.” This sordid episode lays bare the complete subservience of the conciliar hierarchy to the temporal order and the total evaporation of the supernatural mission of the Church.
The Conciliar Hierarchy as Functionaries of the Secular State
The entire spectacle — from the invitation by a conservative think tank (the Heritage Foundation) to the staged prayer in the Oval Office — reveals the conciliar sect for what it truly is: a religious NGO servicing the political apparatus of the modern state. The “bishops” did not go to the White House to demand the recognition of the Social Kingship of Christ over the nation, as Pius XI commands in Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” They went to negotiate “religious worker visas” and “immigration enforcement” — purely administrative, naturalistic concerns. They accepted “commemorative tokens” like petitioners receiving favors from a patron. This is the precise realization of the condemned errors of the Syllabus: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19) and “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20). The “bishops” of the neo-church have internalized their subordination to Caesar; they are chaplains to the state, not ambassadors of Christ the King.
The “Prayer” as Idolatry of the Civic Religion
The prayer in the Oval Office, led by “Archbishop” Golka, was not a Catholic act of worship but a liturgical act of the civil religion of the United States. Golka’s justification — “We pray for people. No matter whether we agree or disagree on anything, we always pray for our country and leaders” — strips prayer of its supernatural finality: the conversion of souls and the exaltation of the Reign of Christ. It reduces the Church’s intercession to a generic benevolence compatible with Masonic deism. Pius XI explicitly warns against this in Quas Primas: “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.” By praying with a non-Catholic president in a secular seat of power, without any profession of the true Faith or demand for the State’s submission to Christ, these “bishops” ratified the separation of Church and State (Error 55) and the independence of civil law from divine law (Error 42). The “prayer” was a photo opportunity for the president and a betrayal of the First Commandment by the “bishops.”
The Apology: Fear of Man, Not Fear of God
Grob’s “apology” is a masterpiece of human respect. He expresses “heavy sadness” over the “pain I caused” and the “confusion, anger, or disappointment among the people entrusted to my care.” Nowhere does he express horror at having offended the Divine Majesty by participating in a political charade that implicitly denies Christ’s Kingship. Nowhere does he acknowledge that a true bishop’s duty is to teach, govern, and sanctify for eternal salvation, not to manage “human dignity” projects in collaboration with the enemies of the Church. His regret is purely pragmatic: “I wished I had heeded [my reservations].” This is the metanoia of the politician, not the conversio of the shepherd. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…” — the conciliar “bishops” have reduced the Church to exactly such a movement, adapting to the “signs of the times” dictated by the White House.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar “Episcopate”
It is essential to recall that these men — Grob, Golka, and their ten colleagues — possess no legitimate ecclesiastical jurisdiction. They are appointees of the usurpers occupying the Vatican since 1958 (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV/Robert Prevost). As the theological arguments in the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrate, a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum). The conciliar “popes” have publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — condemned by Quanta Cura, the Syllabus, Pascendi, and Mortalium Animos. Consequently, their “appointments” are null (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Grob and Golka are laymen dressed in episcopal vestments, exercising a simulated ministry in a counterfeit church. Their “meeting” at the White House has no more ecclesiastical weight than a meeting of the Rotary Club.
The Symptomatic Significance: The Fruit of Vatican II
This incident is not an anomaly; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. Dignitatis Humanae declared the “right” of the State to be free from the Church’s coercive power; Gaudium et Spes oriented the Church toward “dialogue” with the world; Nostra Aetate blurred the distinction between the true Religion and false cults. The “bishops” at the White House were simply living out the new theology: the Church as a “partner” in building a “better world,” the “bishop” as a “leader” advocating for “migrant rights” and “religious freedom” (understood as indifference). The Syllabus condemned the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar “popes” did exactly that; their “bishops” now pay the price in humiliation before the very powers they sought to accommodate.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Read the article again. Search for the words: sin, grace, salvation, hell, judgment, conversion, baptism, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, the Immaculate Heart, the Sacred Heart. They are absent. The only “sacred” thing mentioned is the “prayer to our Heavenly Father” — a phrase vague enough to unite Muslims, Jews, Protestants, and Masons. This silence is the diagnosis. The conciliar sect has nothing to offer but temporal amelioration. It has forgotten — or denied — that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), as Pius XI quotes in Quas Primas. The “bishops” went to the White House to beg for visas; they should have gone to proclaim: “Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari.” Their apology is not for the betrayal of this mandate, but for the bad optics.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
The White House meeting, the staged prayer, the unauthorized video, the groveling apology — this is the theater of the absurd that passes for “episcopal ministry” in the structures occupying the Vatican. It confirms the sedevacantist thesis: the visible hierarchy of the post-conciliar church is a paramasonic structure designed to dismantle the Social Reign of Christ and replace it with a humanitarian parody. True Catholics — those adhering to the integral Faith preserved by validly ordained priests and bishops outside the conciliar structures — look upon this spectacle not with “confusion, anger, or disappointment,” but with the horror of the saints and the certainty that “the gates of hell shall not prevail” (Matt 16:18) against the true Church, which is not in the White House, nor in the conciliar chancery, but where the Traditional Mass is offered and the true Faith is kept entire.
Source:
Milwaukee Archbishop Grob Issues ‘Public Apology’ Over White House Meeting (ncregister.com)
Date: 25.10.2026