Bush Becoming a Catholic?

[pnorman]

President Bush may follow in the footsteps of his brother Jeb and convert to Catholicism, several European papers are reporting.

In the wake of the president’s visit to see Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, Italian newspapers, citing Vatican sources, said Bush was open to the idea of converting to Catholicism.

The Italian newspaper Il Foglio referred to such talk about Bush’s possible conversion and stated that “anything is possible, especially for someone reborn like Bush.”

Noting that Tony Blair converted to Catholicism after leaving office as Britain’s prime minister last year, the paper also stated that “if anything happens, it will happen after he finishes his period as president, not before. It is similar to Blair’s case, but with different circumstances.”
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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bush_catholic/2008/06/16/104851.html?s=al&promo_code=6460-1

pnorman

[malaise]

1. Is it feudalism yet

with the return of the holy roman empire?

[daninthemoon]

2. real wine at Communion? sign him up

[cloudbase]

20. Communion with the

Southern Baptists is so much better. Cornbread and moonshine, baby!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Oh the horror, what will the base say or do?

I mean catholicism is a cult... doncha know?

Oh and forgot this

:sarcasm:

[anonymous171]

22. FILTHY PAPISTS!

I should know, I am one!

[eleny]

4. Being such a fan of the Crusades...

[earthboundmisfit]

5. And what will Reverend Moon think about that?

Hmmm?

[AnneD]

6. Heaven knows...

he sure didn't act like a Methodist. We don't ex communicate-but they sure are trying to ignore the hell out of him and his Presidential Liberry and think tank at SMU.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. yep. Jurisdictional Conference in July will ultimately decide if SMU can cede the land

for the library/think tank.

It's embarrassing that he claims to be a United Methodist, and Cheney too

[demnan]

7. The Methodists will be glad to see him go

he's still pissed because Southern Methodist won't host his library.

[UrbScotty]

8. We Catholics deserve better (nt)

[tularetom]

9. He wants to become part of the "great whore"?

Alert MCCain's spiritual advisor, Rev Hagee.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. The Pope offered to Cannonize Bush - but he meant with real cannons

[Eurobabe]

14. LOL

good one.

[AnneD]

17. Please .....

post a spew alert.:spray:

[no_hypocrisy]

11. He'll never recognize the Pope as being a higher power than he is.

[Terran]

12. He's confused.

The only reason he'd want to convert to Catholicism is because he thinks he'll get to wear some pretty cool hats 'n stuff.

[Eurobabe]

13. Bush just likes to convert, to/or anything. Period.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Why? Because during the Inquisition it was legal to torture?

But would they accept someone that is an idiot and further increase the negativity towards Roman Catholics?

[Mountainman]

18. He knows when he confesses to a priest it is confidential

That way he can say he made amends yet not pay any repercussions.

Bush, "Bless me father, I have sinned. I'm responsible for killing thousands of Iraqis and American troops. I lied the country into war."

Priest, "Make an act of contrition and say 10 Hail Mary's and 10 Our Father's."

Bush, "Well that was easy!"

[dflprincess]

21. That's not exactly how it works

When I was being prepared for First Confession and First Communion sister told us that it did no good to confess our sins unless we were truly sorry. She said we could go into the confessional and tell the priest all the lousy stuff we'd done and we might even fool the priest into giving absolution, but we couldn't fool God.

Besides, confessing doesn't aboslve anyone of legal responsibility (in fact part of the penance could be to turn oneself over to the proper authorities).

[jwirr]

19. I wonder what Laura thinks about that?

[Disturbed]

24. Busholini signed off on at least 130 DP cases.

How will that go over with the Holy Roman Empire? They are anti- DP, ya know.

[Zambero]

23. Oh yes, then he could become the next St. George

Or if things don't work out, possibly a contender for instant excommunication? I like the latter!