Pope to host Bush in unusual Vatican setting

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aimee said:
I hope so… but I think Pope Benedict wanted to thank him for the generous reception he received here in the US…sort of reciprocate…
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Yeah, but the Pope’s visit to the White House was touted as a reciprocal visit for Bush’s visit to the Vatican last June:

“President Bush will play host to Pope Benedict XVI at the start of the papal visit to the United States next week. It’s a reciprocal visit: The president visited the Pope at the Vatican last summer.”

From this site:

weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/bush_opens_white_house_to_pope.html

This could get confusing. The Pope will have to reciprocate the reciprocation… This could go back and forth until January! 😃
 
Here’s a picture of group of one worlders - all related. One member likes to flash secret signals (check out the left hand). Catholic??? (Haw Haw).
 
mdzialo said:
Here’s a picture of group of one worlders - all related. One member likes to flash secret signals (check out the left hand). Catholic??? (Haw Haw).
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Looks like someone has been doing a little photo editing.
 
Roy5 said:
Conversion of President Bush?

Conversion of President Bush? Three reactions.

(1) Doubt it. He was raised Episcopalian and became a Methodist after he married Laura, who came from a very active Methodist family - and she is a graduate of SMU.

(2) I suspect that Bush’s main motive is political, hoping that his visit will assist the GOP ticket among Catholics this November. McCain also was raised Episcopalian, but now attends a Baptist church.

(3) Frankly, if Bush were to convert, I believe it will hurt the image of Catholicism. Is there any American more despised and distrusted around the world? I doubt it. He followed wild and wicked men around him, mainly neocons, and got us into an stupid war in Iraq, with thousands of Americans and Iraqis dead and wounded, anti-US hatred increased around the world, huge expenditures that could all but bankrupt us, diverting our attention from the real enemies in Afghanistan, over-extending our military, giving more power to the crazies in Iran, feeding immoral profiteers, creating a badly divided Americam people, destroying much Iraqi infrastructure, causing a million ot two Iraqi refugees, giving impetus to a rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iraq, leading to persecution of Catholics there - and we could go on.

Saddam, as bad as he was (yes, he was bad), was a secularist, despised by bin Laden, an enemy of Iran, and one who permitted Christians to practice their religion freely. His foreign minister, you may recall, was Aziz, a Catholic, who made a pilgrimage to Rome to see the Pope some years back. Women had considerable freedom, did not have to be covered, and there were more women engineers per capita in Iraq than in any other country of the world.
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mdzialo said:
Here’s a picture of group of one worlders - all related. One member likes to flash secret signals (check out the left hand). Catholic??? (Haw Haw).
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Actually it looks more like that cursed hand gesture from that University of Texas. (hook’em horns) (by the way as a red raider i can’t believe i actually just said hook’em horns…ugh…http://bestsmileys.com/puking/1.gif)
 
Most of you have been around long enough to know that discussing the possible coversion of public figures is not allowed. All references to same have been deleted.
 
No. Maybe they’re residents of the Vatican gardens.

Regarding the issue of “reciprocal visits”, we should bear in mind that President Bush did something that no other U.S. president has ever done: go directly to Andrews Air Force Base to personally receive a visiting head of state, let alone the Supreme Pontiff. No other president, not Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton ever did that while Pope John Paul II (or Pope Paul VI) made their visits to the U.S. That says a lot about our President.

Furthermore, I don’t recall Pope John Paul II gettng as much fanfare from the White House as Pope Benedict got, to the point that they jammed several thousand people into the lawn for this historic event.
 
MichaelMurphy said:
Right.
Parrots also imitate human voices and speech.
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They bite too!
Upset one and it could cost you :rotfl: !
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Parrots were often kept by royalty and even Pope Martin V (1417-1431) appointed a Keeper of Parrots at the Vatican. Reportedly, there is a room at the Vatican named “****Camera di Papagallo”–the Parrot’s room.
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*Did you know that parrots played an important role in WW I? In Paris, they had parrots man a post on top of the Eiffel Tower where, due to their **incredible *sense of hearing, they could detect and warn of the approach of enemy aircraft long before any human ear could hear them.
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In WW II, Churchill kept company with a Blue & Gold Macaw named Charlie. As of an article written in 2004, Charlie was still alive at the ripe old age of 104. The article stated that Charlie can still be coaxed to repeat favorite sayings, such as “[expletive] Hitler” and “[expletive] the Nazis.”
.https://www3814.ssldomain.com/avianenrichment/fun_history.htm
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