A group of Catholic leaders came to the White House Oct. 22 to pray for President Donald Trump. Unbeknownst to the well-meaning Catholics, their prayer in the Oval Office was recorded and the White House shared it without permission, according to Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob. Everything is on camera, and every photo and every recording has the potential to go viral, depending on the timing, the content and agenda of the people doing the sharing. This is an unfortunate reality — even if you’re a member of the clergy. Still, the incident has us scratching our heads. How low do you have to go to embarrass clergy while they are praying for your very soul? “I wish I had been more shrewd and less simple, like those who exploited our meeting for partisan political purposes,” Des Moines Bishop William Joensen said after the video took off. Indeed. To be clear, praying for political leaders is hardly novel or uncommon, and the bishops who prayed for blessings could just as easily have been doing so for any supplicant. In many pulpits on most Sundays, pastors and priests are known to h