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Bluejay Bishop Models True Faith · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. A Creighton University graduate who probably classifies
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  Speaker 1: as a blue dot as well as a blue J
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  Speaker 1: has found himself in a political controversy. A dozen Catholic
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  Speaker 1: bishops met with the president recently to talk about various issues.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was Creighton graduate and Grand Island native
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  Speaker 1: Jim Golka. Excuse me. His Excellency the Archbishop of Denver,
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  Speaker 1: the Most Reverend James Golka. A photo of the bishops
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  Speaker 1: praying with and for President Trump was made public by
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  Speaker 1: the White House. The woke left erupted. What are they
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  Speaker 1: doing praying in the Oval Office with Trump and letting
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  Speaker 1: the world see them doing it? Outrageous! Scandalous! Sacrilegious! Archbishop
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee said, buckled to the woke mob.
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  Speaker 1: He figuratively covered himself in sackcloth and ashes and publicly
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  Speaker 1: groveled to the leftist thugs, begging for forgiveness. Archbishop Golka
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  Speaker 1: took a different approach. He made a very obvious and
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  Speaker 1: Christ-like observation. He said, We pray for people. No matter
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  Speaker 1: whether we agree or disagree on anything, we always pray
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  Speaker 1: for our country and leaders. So simple. So reasonable. So Christian.
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  Speaker 1: So Golka. Let me channel my inner Lloyd Benson. I
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  Speaker 1: know Archbishop Golka. I went to his ordination to the priesthood.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Golka is a good friend of my brother. Archbishop Grob,
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  Speaker 1: you're no Jim Golka. I have not seen or talked
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  Speaker 1: to Archbishop Golka in decades. But I hear about him
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  Speaker 1: from my brother. He is still good, humble, smart, devout, fun-loving.
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  Speaker 1: If anything, he leans to the left politically, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I so appreciate his comment. All those criticizing the
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  Speaker 1: bishops need to crack open a Bible and see how
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  Speaker 1: often Jesus met with, broke bread with, prayed with, and
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  Speaker 1: performed miracles for all kinds of people, not just the
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  Speaker 1: politically correct. Some, including some of his followers, were scandalized
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  Speaker 1: by it. Bishop Robert Barron spent much of his career
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  Speaker 1: teaching in the seminary. He said one of his first
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  Speaker 1: questions to seminarians was, Do you like sinners? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: who you will deal with in this job. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not willing to love sinners, then this is the wrong
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  Speaker 1: job for you. In a Catholic Mass, about halfway through
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  Speaker 1: the service, a half dozen or so prayers of petition
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  Speaker 1: are offered. Typically the first is for the church and
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  Speaker 1: its leaders. Typically the second is is for local, state,
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  Speaker 1: and federal political and governmental leaders that they are wise
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  Speaker 1: and moral in their decisions and actions. We don't just
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  Speaker 1: pray for the ones we like. We pray for all
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  Speaker 1: of them. God's sun shines and his rain falls on everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And we are commanded to pray for foes as well
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  Speaker 1: as friends. And let's make sure we properly distinguish between
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  Speaker 1: foe and friend. Despite President Biden's alleged Catholic faith, his
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  Speaker 1: administration in numerous ways repeatedly investigated and harassed all people
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  Speaker 1: and things Catholic, including the FBI targeting traditional Catholic parishes
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  Speaker 1: and organizations as dangerous extremists. Trump came in and ended
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  Speaker 1: the weaponization of federal power against Catholics, pardoned pro-life activists,
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  Speaker 1: arrested for peaceful protest, and in other ways has been
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  Speaker 1: a staunch defender of religious freedom to the benefit of Catholics.
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  Speaker 1: He has championed natural law on human sexuality and pushed
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  Speaker 1: back against attacks on child sexuality, fairness in women's sports,
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  Speaker 1: and safety and dignity in women's private spaces. During his
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  Speaker 1: first presidency, Trump, of course, appointed the justices that allowed
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. During Trump 47,
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  Speaker 1: there have been beautiful, soulful reflections issued by the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration to mark Catholic feast days. I did a podcast
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  Speaker 1: in April in which I referenced a statement Trump issued
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  Speaker 1: in December 2025 celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
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  Speaker 1: of Mary and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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  Speaker 1: It went on and on about Mary's role in salvation history,
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  Speaker 1: and in American history. The statement noted Mary's role in
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  Speaker 1: advancing peace, hope, and love in America and concluded with
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  Speaker 1: the Hail Mary prayer. I do not know of any
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  Speaker 1: other president, including the Catholic ones, who have shown such
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  Speaker 1: deference and reverence for the Catholic faith. I suspect that
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  Speaker 1: the people hyperventilating over the image of Catholic bishops in
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  Speaker 1: prayer with the president, are people for whom politics is
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  Speaker 1: actually their religion. Or politics is more important to them
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  Speaker 1: than their religion. If religion is number one, then you
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  Speaker 1: should welcome the image of religious leaders praying for the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God to infuse and guide a national leader.
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  Speaker 1: If you think Trump is good, then you want him
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  Speaker 1: reinforced in what he is doing. If you think Trump
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  Speaker 1: is bad, then you ought to want this even more.
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  Speaker 1: If your Christian faith is the most important thing in
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  Speaker 1: your life, then you believe there is nothing more powerful
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  Speaker 1: than the grace of God. Nothing more likely to turn
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  Speaker 1: someone around and get him going the right direction than
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God. In the photo I saw of
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  Speaker 1: the group prayer, Archbishop Golka is extending his right arm
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  Speaker 1: and placing his hand on the president's shoulder. That is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Jesus would do. A bishop is a direct
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  Speaker 1: successor of the apostles, who got their example and marching
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  Speaker 1: orders directly from Jesus Christ. God bless you, Archbishop Golka,
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  Speaker 1: for modeling your ultimate boss and behaving exactly as a
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  Speaker 1: bishop of the Catholic Church should behave toward a president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States seeking your blessing to help him
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  Speaker 1: best serve the nation. That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.