Luceat!

Finally, he has arrived and to an unprecedented welcome from President Bush! Check this out from Catholic News Service:

It was the first time in his presidency that Bush had gone to Andrews to welcome any head of state. The air base has hosted more than 300 arrivals or departures by heads of state since 2006.

This is made me wonder if this is as close as we will be able to get to seeing the kind of respect and honor for the Holy Father as was shown during the height of Christendom. A tradition of the Holy Roman Emperors, founded first by Charlemagne, was to enter Rome guiding the Pope’s mule as the Holy Father rode on top.

Not to try to equate President Bush with a Holy Roman Emperor (I can just hear the cries of Theocrats as I write this), but only to point out that nobody else has received this sort of welcome…President Bush isn’t leading anyone else’s mule…