Could it happen — might George W. Bush convert to Catholicism like his brother Jeb? Shades of Tony Blair! If he does let's hope the Pope treats him a lot better, though apparently they've met several times recently and had warm exchanges.
I'm not sure what I think of this. Obviously having another convert is good, in and of itself, though having someone as unpopular as Bush with his reputation for intelligence might not reflect as well on the concept of converting to Catholicism as one would like. But we'll take 'im.
On a totally, totally random note — I was imagining conversations between him and Jeb, and thinking about how a president's relatives reach him by phone, and wondering if the White House operators learn to recognize their voices so they can't be faked, and finally whether the president uses a commercial off-the-shelf cellphone, or whether the military builds a custom one for him. Actually there are two questions, the second being, does he use his highly secure military-grade communication for personal calls, or does he reserve that for official business? Surely they have a way of communicating with him that is not over the commercial networks, although I don't know how you do that without building a parallel cell network or something similar. That seems unlikely. This may be a question for the incomparable Cecil Adams.
(Thanks to my friend Bacon)
I rather doubt they ever let the President say anything on an unencrypted cell phone.
The military had its on phone network (AUTOVON) but I think they phased it out in the 90s in favor of encryption (STU-3 and later) over the PSTN.