April 08, 2005

Here's a very fine piece (in the LATimes, no less! Mirabile dictu!) on President Bush's thoughts on the Pope's funeral service as he rode Air Force One back home:
Bush: 'I Didn't Realize How Moved I Would Be By The Service'
I didn't realize how moved I would be myself.
I'm still physically drained from staying up all night to watch the funeral live, but it was worth it.
Despite the fact that I was joined watching it on TV with millions (maybe billions) of people around the world, the mass felt very intimate, almost as if I were on the front row...
It was a very beautiful and moving religious service, it was a great moment of world history and it was the "funeral of all funerals" for a great man of God and a loving shepherd of His Children whom many, many of us will sorely miss whether we be Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist.