"He needed to come". Kathy Battle Sings The Lord's Prayer For The Pope

Kathleen Battle, the Pope and George W. Bush are at the White House, and then...

Just throw in a rabbi and an elephant and it's like the perfect setup for a joke.

Anyways:

"A few yelled Viva il Papa"

We'd yell "Viva la Kathy", but that's just OC.

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OMG controversy!

Soprano Kathleen Battle has been enlisted to sing “The Lord’s Prayer” — a decision the White House defended as appropriate despite the overt insertion of religion into a public event. “I think we’ve struck the right balance,” Perino said

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Video:

Huge Battle photo on the White House's website here

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