Bush Visiting Vatican
From My Way News:
When President Bush visits the Vatican on Friday the two sides will be anxious to put aside their differences over the war in Iraq and discuss how they can cooperate in rebuilding a sovereign country, officials preparing for the meeting said Tuesday.
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The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, James Nicholson, said he expected Bush and the pope "will have a very meaningful exchange on Iraq, the Middle East and terrorism" and said John Paul was "very supportive of our efforts" to combat the terrorist threat.
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Bush, who has courted Catholic voters in the United States, changed his travel plans for the visit, moving up his arrival to enable him to meet with the 84-year-old pontiff. John Paul departs Saturday morning on a two-day pilgrimage to Switzerland.
The president is closer to the Vatican on several hot-button issues than is his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, who is Roman Catholic.
Kerry said he supported state-sanctioned civil unions for same-sex couples to afford them equal rights under the law. He opposes a proposed amendment to the Constitution, which is backed by Bush, that would ban gay marriage nationally.
Kerry supports abortion rights for women, while Bush supports abortion only in cases of rape or incest or when a woman's life is endangered.
Matt's Chat
Anybody else see anything missing from the agenda? I do... I think the President should ask the pontiff to get serious about a no-tolerance policy for child molesters donning the cloak of God. Afterall, the Vatican can condemn all sorts of things but the Church itself apparently...Mark's Remarks
Actually, I think the President should say this:
Mr. Pope John, I think that until you get your act together in combatting the child molesters you coddled for 30 years, you should simply....
SHUT
THE
PIEHOLE!!!!!
Thanks, and God bless America.
