Father Dave Dwyer on Trump’s Church Visit: ‘Certainly, the Bible Couldn’t Have Been Anything More Than a Prop’

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DWYER: "Well, certainly, the Bible couldn’t have been anything more than a prop. I’m not going to judge his heart, but certainly the opportunity for photos to activate people that I’m sure he and his people would know would relate to that. And we’ve seen the reaction. As you’ve talked about, yes, many religious leaders have decried that, but many people all across the land who are of a Christian or Catholic faith have said, 'Good for the president!' So, I mean, I think he knows that doing that — in fact, one distinction that I’ll make between the two days — yes, they did happen to be back to back — in many ways they were similar and seem similar. In the second instance, what happened yesterday at the Catholic — the first day it was an Episcopal Church near the White House, yesterday it was a Catholic shrine just across the street from the grounds of the Catholic University of America. And in that second instance, the President was actually invited by those who run the shrine, and it was to coordinate with him signing an executive order yesterday afternoon about religious freedom. So, it’s likely that that was kind of planned before all this happened, but nonetheless, yes, two days in a row.”