The Right Reverend

Just tough, ready, committed troops.

Well, I turn to the Right Reverend Anne Ratonia, an Episcopal bishop of the Armed Forces and Federal Ministries, representing about a hundred and thirty-five chaplains.

I started by asking her what she made of the kind of language being used.

As an Episcopal member of the church, our vows, our baptismal promises say that we'll seek and serve Christ and all people, and that we'll respect the dignity of every human being.

And so when significant changes are introduced, we need to ask those questions: How are these changes going to affect trust, fairness, mutual accountability, as well as who's going to be left out from this free exercise of religion? And there's, you know, a non-establishment clause that there will be no state religion.

So I really do think some pretty strict guardrails need to be put in place to ensure that all of our members of the service have the ability to exercise their faith or not freely.

The Right Reverend Anne Ratonia.

Well, we asked the Pentagon about some of these criticisms and received this response voiced by one of our producers.

National Cathedral is going to be looking for a new spiritual leader.

The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, B-U-D-D-E. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington.

They have the Ten Suggestions engraved on the floor.

The Episcopal Bishop of Washington is stepping down and says she's returning to her home state of Minnesota.

Minnesota, imagine that.

Budde, who has held her post, uh, at, uh, Washington National Cathedral since 2011, is best known for the words she offered to President Trump at the inauguration prayer and, uh, listen, held when he was sworn in for the second time last year.

Now, listen to this, uh, soundbite of the, uh, Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, uh, lecturing President Trump at his inauguration, at the prayer service in the National Cathedral.

The people who pick our crops, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals, they-

This interesting historical fact is elaborately set forth in the following historical document.

Letter of the Right Reverend Joseph Rosati, Bishop of St. Louis, to the Right Reverend Father General of the Society of Jesus at Rome.

St. Louis, October 20, 1839.

My Right Reverend Father, Twenty-three years ago, two Indians of the Iroquois mission left their native country, Canada, with twenty-two other warriors, and went to settle in a country situated between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Sea.