"Well, first of all, it's important to me because the Holy Father represents and stands for some values that I think are important for the health of the country, and when he comes to America, millions of my fellow citizens will be hanging on his every word. And that's why it's important.
"I really don't want to… spend time being critical of Europe. My main objective is to make sure our country is strong and solid and remains in the lead. One of the tenets of my foreign policy is that there is an Almighty, and a gift of that Almighty to every man, woman and child is freedom. And, you know, His Holiness speaks with that kind of clarity.
Bush professes to be a Christian. He most certainly is not, and there is much evidence for this, but these statements of his are just further evidence. He called the Roman pope "the Holy Father" (a name given only to God the Father in the Bible, Jn. 17:11) and "His Holiness" – the one the Bible calls "the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition" (2 Thess. 2:3), "that Wicked" (2 Thess. 2:8), and "Antichrist" (1 Jn. 2:18). And he thinks that welcoming the Antichrist to America will help to make the country "strong and solid and remain in the lead"! How deceived he is. Any country that welcomes the Antichrist to its shores invites the judgment of God upon it. Already that land has felt the effects of the wrath of God following his visit, just as in the past when the previous pope, John Paul II, visited it. God is not mocked.
As for the fact that millions of Americans hang on his every word, although this is true it should not be a reason for Bush to view his visit as important to America. The very opposite in fact: Roman Catholics number more than any other religious group in America today. Their power and influence is vast. And they owe allegiance to the pope in Rome first and foremost – above any allegiance to their country's president! Yes, millions of Americans hang on his every word; but this is a tragedy for America, for it means there is another power in America besides the man in the White House, a man with far more power, far greater wealth, and the ability, through those very millions of loyal followers in America, to radically alter the United States as a country. It has been done already, and it will continue to be done in the years ahead.
That is how the President of the United States views the pope of Rome!