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George W Bush meets Pope amid claims he might convert to Catholicism
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 6/13/08 | Malcom Moore

Posted on 06/13/2008 6:38:38 AM PDT by camerakid400

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1 posted on 06/13/2008 6:38:38 AM PDT by camerakid400
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To: camerakid400

This is not likely.


2 posted on 06/13/2008 6:40:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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We’d welcome him to the RCC


3 posted on 06/13/2008 6:43:19 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: ConservativeMind

Ala.... Tony Blair ?


4 posted on 06/13/2008 6:43:40 AM PDT by IrishMike (I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.)
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To: ConservativeMind
This is not likely.

How do you know?

5 posted on 06/13/2008 6:45:41 AM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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Catholics have noted that during the contested election in 2000, Jeb Bush travelled to Mexico and prayed to the icon of Our Lady of Guadelupe. His victory was announced by the Supreme Court on December 12, the feast day of the Lady of Guadelupe.

Well, there you have it.

6 posted on 06/13/2008 6:45:42 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: ConservativeMind

If so, this must be of recent consideration by the President as I was told a few months ago they were returning to their Methodist church in Dallas.


7 posted on 06/13/2008 6:46:11 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: B Knotts
I think this proves he isn't likely to convert:

However, Mr Bush did not, as expected, kneel in prayer before the Grotto of the Madonna of Lourdes

Maybe after he leaves office....... maybe. But I doubt it as well.

8 posted on 06/13/2008 6:47:54 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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I wonder how SMU would take it if, whether they would still support the Presidential Library or not.


9 posted on 06/13/2008 6:48:49 AM PDT by neb52
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To: camerakid400

All roads lead to Rome ...


10 posted on 06/13/2008 6:49:13 AM PDT by austinrepub
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To: Coleus

Catholic Bump!


11 posted on 06/13/2008 6:52:16 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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How do you know?

There's nothing at all to indicate that the President is leaning that way.

12 posted on 06/13/2008 6:52:16 AM PDT by what's up
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LOL! I didn’t recall that, actually; I guess I was just so caught up in the events that I somehow missed Our Lady!

But seriously, I think this would be wonderful. It would give Bush an environment that would be supportive of his thought and positions, something that can be hard to find nowadays.

He wouldn’t be the first. Justice Clarence Thomas, for example, who was brought up as a Catholic but attended an Episcopal church prior to those awful hearings, came back to the Church afterwards and I think has found considerable intellectual and moral support in it.


13 posted on 06/13/2008 6:54:03 AM PDT by livius
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His brother became a Catholic, IIRC.

Face it, anything is better than the squishy brand of Methodism that has shaped his Presidency. That's where his whacked-out views on immigration, and the whole "New Tone" thing sprang from.

The irony of SMU building his library after he converts is delicious, though.
14 posted on 06/13/2008 6:56:30 AM PDT by horse_doc (Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
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I wonder how SMU would take it if, whether they would still support the Presidential Library or not.

Wouldn't change a thing.

15 posted on 06/13/2008 6:56:57 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Hussein Obama And His Friends Want You To Pay More For Gasoline)
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To: camerakid400
The two men spoke for half an hour in the 12th century Tower of St John, a private area in the Vatican gardens which is used by the pope for private reflection.

The Holy Father has many cats in his gardens. I wonder if any joined the conversation? :)

16 posted on 06/13/2008 6:57:06 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (The dice are on the table. It is hot in Suez.)
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To: pissant

Mindless speculation.


17 posted on 06/13/2008 6:58:22 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Hussein Obama And His Friends Want You To Pay More For Gasoline)
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To: horse_doc
Face it, anything is better than the squishy brand of Methodism that has shaped his Presidency.

Oh brother! LOL.

18 posted on 06/13/2008 6:59:36 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Hussein Obama And His Friends Want You To Pay More For Gasoline)
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To: horse_doc

I don’t think that SMU cares about GW becoming a Catholic; landing a presidential library is a huge prize and he could be Buddhist for all they care.

Whatever the President chooses to do, I wish him all the best on his spiritual journey. I sincerely hope that he is listening to God and makes the right decision; I am an Evangelical Christian but I respect the tradition and inherent conservativeness of the Catholic faith. They stand unashamedly for life and are a bastion against godlessness in many otherwise godless parts of the world.


19 posted on 06/13/2008 6:59:39 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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Somehow I doubt this. For the Telegraph, anything having to do with the Pope or the Catholic Church is bad, bad, bad. This is just another way to bash Bush.


20 posted on 06/13/2008 7:01:19 AM PDT by Antoninus (John 6:54)
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