The Bishop Who Spoke Truth to Trump Was Doing Her Job
Politics / The president may not have approved of Mariann Edgar Budde’s homily at the National Cathedral. But the bishop answered to a higher moral calling. John Nichols Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who stirred the wrath of Donald Trump and his conservative allies this week with a National Prayer Service homily that urged the newly-inaugurated president “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,