[a_chronic_whiner]

Interesting

[tlb]

During the Supreme Court nomination battles I recall the anti-Catholic card being played by the left, saying Bush wished to pack the court with anti-abortion Catholics as a backdoor strategy to abolish “Choice”. I suppose soon we’ll see the 1960 anti-Kennedy meme that he is a puppet of the Pope brought back against Bush.

[livius]

It is interesting. Bush is really going all out to welcome the Pope on this visit, too, even though the press has tried to put a negative spin on everything the Pope says and does with relation to him. Remember his meeting last year where the Pope was supposedly going to excoriate him for Iraq? Of course, he didn’t; it’s the job of a pope to try to achieve peace and reconciliation, and he definitely wants a solution, but he also realizes that a large part of it depends upon people over whom we have no control (the Muslim factions in Iraq). I think his main goal there is more protection for Christians, and that actually was something that he is known to have spoken to Bush about.

This pope is well aware what we’re up against, and I think he is aware that Bush is also concerned about Western civilization and its heritage of liberty and hope. They’re on the same wavelength on that.

[A.A. Cunningham]

the president remarked that he had read one of the new pontiff's books about faith and culture in Western Europe.

[Dilbert56]

If President Bush had been exploiting Catholicism for political reasons he would have stopped by now. His Presidency is over in 9 months. His popularity is so low nothing could salvage it quickly enough to increase his effectiveness. Based on the above, I conclude he discerns good in the Church's teachings and shares values with its leader.

[Gumdrop]

I don’t know whether GWB is a “Closet Cathoic” or not. But I do know that his Christian faith is strong and is not a facade. That is why the leftists on campus and in the news
media detest him so. Remember during a debate in 2000 when the candidates were asked which philosopher had influenced their personal beliefs the most, and Bush answered Jesus Christ? After this statement, the daggers were swift from the MSM. The battle had been engaged.

[Salvation]

This wouldn’t surprise me at all.

[Salvation]

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[LordBridey]

If Bush is Catholic, he is of the cafeteria kind.

[dangus]

Well, many scoffed at the notion that Tony Blair had gone Catholic, and I saw their point. Gosh knows that Bush’s domestic policies seem written by the leftish USCCB, which gives him no credit. And Bush does have Catholics in his nuclear family.