Update April 1, 2026

US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse

Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as a White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Previously…

Donald Trump’s former spiritual advisor and the former pastor of a Texas megachurch, Robert Morris, has turned himself into Oklahoma authorities today on child sexual abuse charges.