The 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast will be streamed online on Sept. 23 the organization announced on Wednesday. The event will honor Attorney General William Barr.
Former presidents and vice presidents have made appearances at the gathering—Vice President Mike Pence addressed the annual event in 2017, and former President George W. Bush spoke at the breakfast each year from 2005 to 2008…. Then-acting White House chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney addressed the gathering in 2019.
The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast has taken place in Washington, D.C. every year since 2004. [This year’s] prayer breakfast will now be streamed online with a mix of live and taped segments filling a one-hour schedule. Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote address.
While Archbishop Charles Chaput, archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, was originally scheduled to speak at the prayer breakfast in March, he no longer appears on the schedule….
Attorney General Barr is still scheduled to speak on Sept. 23 and receive the Christifideles Laici award, named for Pope St. John Paul II’s 1988 exhortation and reserved to honor the laity who promote the New Evangelization and the Church’s mission in their life and work.
Barr, a Catholic, served as attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration from 1991 to 1993, and was confirmed as attorney general again in 2019….
The above comes from a Sept. 3 story run by the Catholic News Agency.
tAG Barr is a quiet competent Catholic person – and keeps his cool in a political world, where so many speak only with screaming, contemptuous insults. He has been excellent when called before committees that openly despise him, as a Catholic – he is quiet, doesn’t lose his temper, and is kind to opponents. Take for example, his recent CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf stated: “We (CNN) are fair and balanced!” Barr only smiled and chuckled, as everybody knows the truth. All the best to the AG, would like to vote for him as President (in another four years)
I have to wonder what Abp Chaput did to get axed from the agenda.
AG Barr has one of the finest Catholic minds of our time. Yet, like others, I wonder why Archbishop Chaput is no longer scheduled to speak. “We are excited to welcome Archbishop Chaput and Attorney General Barr to this year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast,” the event’s chairman, Mark Randall, said in a previous statement.
Barr should be disbarred for using the Dep’t of Justice to squash a case for Trump to provide evidence in a rape case. The church should lose its tax exemption for promoting partisan politicians in this manner. I’m glad that I left the church I was born into. So sad. It’s lost it’s way. It’s the Age of Apostasy.