EWTN News reports that nearly 500 “faith leaders,” including U.S. President Donald Trump, will gather in Washington, D.C., from April 19–25, 2026, to read the entire King James Version of the Bible aloud at the Museum of the Bible, in an event called “America Reads the Bible,” organized by the group Christians Engaged and timed to coincide with the nation’s 250th anniversary. The event will feature Catholic speakers such as author Allan Wright, CatholicVote president Kelsey Reinhardt, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, actress Patricia Heaton, and others, alongside Protestant, evangelical, and “Christian nationalist” figures. The organizers describe the event as “a spiritual celebration of our nation’s founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today,” inspired by the book of Ezra’s public reading of Scripture. President Trump himself read from 2 Chronicles on April 21, declaring that “in every generation, through every trial and triumph, God’s Word has guided our people and our country to new heights.”
This event, draped in the language of spiritual renewal and national repentance, is in reality a textbook manifestation of the very errors the Church has condemned for centuries: the reduction of religion to a naturalistic, civic exercise; the erasure of the distinction between the true religion and false worship; and the substitution of the Church’s supernatural mission with a Protestant-tinged, democratic spectacle that serves the agenda of the post-conciliar apostasy.
