Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde has gone viral. The Episcopalian priest urged President Trump to allow gay and transgender individuals, as well as immigrants, to live freely in the United States. Since then,

The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, has voiced concern about Donald Trump’s language and conduct for years.

Mariann Edgar Budde serves in the Episcopal Church, which affirms the LGBTQ community. The Catholic Church does not allow women to serve as bishops.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families at a National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration Tuesday, which went viral and prompted the president to call her “nasty in tone” and “not compelling or smart.

The first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Bishop Budde had a message for President Trump during his first term, too.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde isn’t afraid to speak truth to power. Unlike almost everyone else in President Donald Trump’s orbit these days. And she has no plans to apologize for asking Trump to show mercy on the people he has terrorized in his first days back in power.

Rev. Mariann Budde said she refuses to apologize to President Donald Trump for her recent remarks, and she issued a new plea to Americans to “speak to one another with respect.” The Episcopal Bishop of Washington said she has been facing a wave of hate for her sermon during Tuesday’s inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral,

President Donald Trump demanded an apology from the Episcopal Church after Bishop Mariann Budde made pointed remarks toward him during a national prayer service.

The Right Rev. Mariann Budde made headlines this week after she angered President Donald Trump with her sermon during an inaugural prayer service.

In her inauguration sermon, Mariann Budde did what all clergy should do: challenge, ruffle and advocate for basic humanity

OP-ED. 'This woman's intervention and her courage are a ray of hope in the face of the merciless world on which Trump wants to refound America,' wrote theologians Sylvaine Landrivon and Anne Soupa in this op-ed.