Bush chose to give the Pope a hand-carved walking stick from Dallas resident Roosevelt Wilkerson, a ninth-grade dropout who was homeless until a few years ago. Wednesday, July 02, 2025 A service ...

On his recent trip to the Vatican, President Bush presented Pope Benedict XVI with one of Wilkerson's hand-carved walking sticks inscribed with the Ten Commandments. "I'm just dumbfounded," said ...

DALLAS - Under the light of a single bulb of a floor lamp, Roosevelt Wilkerson carves the Ten Commandments onto the smooth surface of a wooden walking stick with a ...