The White House’s release last week of a video of a dozen Catholic clerics praying over Trump in the Oval Office sent shockwaves through US Catholic hierarchy, which has been highly critical of many of Trump’s policies. Source: Financial Times 27 Oct edition. Bishops should have known better. Stalin revived the Russian Orthodox Church post WWII to provide propaganda shielding his brutality. So Trump has learned well while the Catholic Church has not. Just before an election.