Transcript: Interview of President Bush by Catholic News Anchor
EWTN carries the transcript here. The Interview focuses on moral relativism, the sanctity of life, religious freedom, China, Iraq, and the Middle East. It begins:
Library 10:54 A.M. EDT Q Mr. President, this is the first head of state, Pope Benedict the XVI, you will ever greet on a tarmac. I was stunned to learn this. Why are you going and greeting him at an airstrip? Usually the heads of states come here.
THE PRESIDENT: Because he is a really important figure in a lot of ways. One, he speaks for millions. Two, he doesn’t come as a politician; he comes as a man of faith. And, three, that I so subscribe to his notion that there are — there’s right and wrong in life, that moral relativism has a danger of undermining the capacity to have more hopeful and free societies, that I want to honor his convictions, as well.
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