Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde said she is “not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others,” a plea she made to President Donald Trump from the Canterbury pulpit on Tuesday. 

“It was a pretty mild sermon,” Budde said of her Tuesday sermon to Time. “It certainly wasn’t a fire and brimstone sermon. It was as respectful and as universal as I could with the exception of making someone who has been entrusted with such enormous influence and power to have mercy on those who are most vulnerable.”