NEWS ANALYSIS: Is George Bush leading America’s first truly Catholic presidency?

RNS’ Daniel Burke’s news analysis looks at how some argue that the Bush presidency may be the most Catholic-centric in American history, in this week’s full-text article, linked above.

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The 2005 West Wing meeting was just one indicator of how a Methodist president has surrounded himself with Roman Catholic intellectuals, speechwriters, professors, priests, bishops and politicians. These Catholics-and thus Catholic social teaching-have for the past eight years been shaping Bush’s speeches, policies and legacy to a degree perhaps unprecedented in U.S. history.