PHOTOS: honoring the Pope at the NATIONAL Shrine...without bush*

[diamond14]

that bush* was sent elsewhere....bush* appeared for his photo-op at a local Parish Church, while all the REAL Catholics went to the "Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception" in Washington DC....where the Cardinal (the HEAD of America's Catholic Church) performed Mass, without bush*....thank God....so we could mourn our Pope without bush* around.....Pope John Paul II called bush* "the Anti-Christ", which is evil incarnate....the Pope told bush* "You go to war on Iraq...and you go without God !"....





Mourners enter the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception under the black bunting which signifies the death of Pope John Paul II, April 2, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)



Laying flowers and a black sash over a portrait of Pope John Paul II at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception signifies his death, April 2, 2005, in Washington. Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history's most-traveled pope, died Saturday, April 2, 2005 in his Vatican apartment. He was 84. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)




Mourners pray at the alter after Cardinal Theodore McCarrick held a mass for Pope John Paul II at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, April 2, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

[swag]

1. I do like CUA and the Shrine

that big spired dome above Northeast DC. My spouse got her engineering degree up there. Many happy breakfasts at the cafeteria in the Shrine's cafeteria, dubbed "the Popeteria" by students, due to all of the enlarged pictures from the Pope's visit.

I remember more vividly, of course, Cory Aquino's visit. Alas, those were different times. Thinking of them even now make me miss (!) the then-loathed (and still-loathed, just not loathed near as much as the Bush II era) Reagan/BushI era. Little did I anticipate the best years, the Clinton years, that didn't come until after I had left DC.

[onehandle]

2. Good.

A beautiful Basilica. I will drop by and see it again next time I'm in DC.

Leave us "papal papists" alone, smirk.

[Bluebear]

3. beautiful collection of photos, diamond