Bush just arrived at St. Matthew's Cathedral (DC) for Mass.

He's really capping on this, isn't he?

That son of a bitch.

I thought he was a protestant "born again" christian

for the ofering plate at a protestant church, shortly after his re-selection?

I can't wait to see how he's going to mangle a Catholic service. Who will whisper in his ear the proper behavior?

if he takes the communion, I'll vomit. No really, I'll vomit

But what do I know? The protestant base of the religious right will probably be puking right along with you, if, indeed, he takes communion.

I think that is just about one of the biggest faux pas you can do. Hell I'm a Catholic and I won't take communion the few times I go to church a year because I haven't been to confession in forever

I went to mass at St Patrick's in NYC....all baptized Catholics were welcome to come to the altar for communion was the announcement, so I went. I haven't been in a confessional since the 60's. And I wasn't struck by lightening :silly:

but do they take communion too or just on the special holiday's? My church takes it every first day of the week so I was just wondering about Bush and communion.

And indeed it is done only on special days--usually only several times a year.

I doubt they will offer it to him.

These Catholics get little bread patties, and they let you wash it down with a bunch of wine. Grab a few extra bread patties, I may get the munchies after that wine."

Bush is disgustingly obvious -

when he leaves to remove the stench of evil from the pews

perform an EXORCIST on that idiot and cast the devil out of him. Bu$h is nothing but a phoney "christian" who uses religion for political points. That rotten scumbag doesn't fool me,too bad he's got so many others fooled.Actions speak louder than words,and his actions proves he's NOT Christ-like.

either an election's coming, or he's trying to distract people from something.

:puke: x infinity

I hope he washed the blood off of his hands first.

The Pope begged him not to have his Iraqi war. The man has no shame.

vile creep is. Rove probably interrupted his nap and told him to get his ass over to the Catholic church for a photo op. If he had any class at all, he'd have issued a simple, dignified statement of condolence and then retreated out of sight for the weekend.

What an arrogant, hypocritical POS he is.

doing showing up for a Catholic mass? He should have more respect than that. What a photo whore! If he were sincere he would go quietly to pray alone at his church or in his room in private. WHORE!

that the chimp in chief has not yet burst into flames upon stepping in to a church.

he just offed. What's the diff.

with my X, but I would never, ever, ever take communion there. If Bush does that, he's an even bigger idiot than I thought.

He could run down the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue naked screaming obscenities & I'd say, "there goes Dubyah again".


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appropriate....isn't that the NATION's church, and welcomes all faiths too.

Or even the National Shrine, which I think is the NATION's Catholic church.

This is just strange. He's so transparent, and I don't buy his sincerity at all.

On my serious note, I strongly believe it is important for world leaders to show respect for another world leader. And this Pope was an important world leader

He's the most hated American pRESIDENT we've ever had. It's embarrassing to our nation he is sitting there representing us. :puke:

for diplomatic and other purposes , like civility, it is just so important that Bush does a respectful speech like he did a few hours ago. That was good; he did what he was supposed to do whether he meant it or not. (Personally I don't think he did, but my thought is irrelevant to world diplomacy and how countries interact with each other).

look at the walk, not the talk. it is outrageous bush has audacity to even speak about the man

WHether Bush goes through the motions and doesn't mean it, that's "okay" as I don't think he is capable of getting beyond and above the niceties of diplomacy anyway. I want Bush to do the diplomatic niceties the way an American Prez should do them, no matter what he thinks of the Pope or any other world leader who has just died. Have him show up, act respectful, etc., as there are a lot of religious around the world.

Didn't matter if you were Catholic, Baptist, Buddhist, or Hindu--or Muslim--you were condemned to hell if you weren't baptized AFTER you accepted Jesus as your personal savior.

I'm no longer in the Baptist church...when I hit 18, I bugged out of there and haven't looked back.

infant dies, it will go to heaven as I recall. And then they have Confirmation as teenagers usually, which is a reaffirmation of the faith. SO with the Baptists if an infant dies, does it go to heaven automatically?

I did my best to wipe my mind clean of that dogma.

Seriously, our sunday school teachers told us that young children go to heaven, but once a child gets old enough to understand prayer and repentance, if he or she does not repent for his/her sins, said child will indeed go to hell. I am certain it was a scare tactic...but this is what we were told.

i hear too often how they say catholics arent christians, heathens, i defend these catholics, though i am not one. i respect the catholic religion, as i deal with the hypocrisy of the catholic religion, turning against kerry, starting a against abortion camp here in my town. my friends and family that are catholics, living the pretty part of the religioun, ignoring the hate of the religion. til they have to walk away from it, because their personal life is effected by the hate.

i am fuckin tired of all the religious hypocrisy as they tell me what morality is

for bush to even walk into a catholic church, is wrong, in my view.

on edit: i want to see every catholic stand up and be outraged. you call us heathen. you say we arent christian. you dnt belong in our church

I am not understanding that as both worship Jesus.

I turned my TV off when I saw him and his zomby ass stepford wife walk in. He always has to grab the media away from everything that goes on.People can't even die in peace without him stealing the spotlight away from them. Oh,well...the idiot steals elections too,so we shouldn't be all that surprised with his insensitive actions toward the death of someone. Phucking whore bastard.I hope he rots in hell. :argh:

Wring it out for all it's worth.
Squeeze every last drop of sactimonius limelight out of it.
dork

So far he has only visited 16 cities in 37 days.

I suppose he feels he gets more political mileage out of the pope.

he will have to double up on some of those cities. It's hard work.

I'm offended by the fact that he would go to a Mass for a photo op. As a decent human being, I'm offended by the fact that he would set foot in a church, with all that blood on his hands.

He's awful. :puke:

I am not sure of the correct term to use, but the shot we have often seen of John F. Kennedy, Jr. saluting the casket of his father showed him standing on the steps of this beautiful church where the service had just been held.

I had planned to walk down to St. Matthew's to sit inside and meditate on the passing of the Pope. As I have said in other threads, I am not Catholic but I had tremendous amount of respect for him. He told Bush* personally just prior to the war, "if you go into Iraq, you go without God." My own church, which I subsequently left, was the only church which came out publicly in support of the war.

I remain non-denominational at this time but feel perfectly comfortable walking into any church when I feel the need. St. Matthew's is a church so historical and so beautiful it defies words. The thought of Bush* going into this church is repulsive to me.

Clinton and Nancy Reagan referred to him, with their condolences, as his holiness but NOT Bush I or II.

or so they THINK it's reserved for them. Everyone else is beneath those two. (heavy sarcasm) :eyes:

to a new kind of Christian Taliban that will vote for him over "life" but won't object to wars and big business picking the little guys pocket.