Verbatim.

"You can eat your bacon in good conscience."

--President George W. Bush at the National Catholic Prayer breakfast on the first Friday after Easter (White House press release, April 13, 2007)

"We call on the Holy Father to make a choice of high religious and ethical significance by not wearing fur."

--The Italian Anti-Vivisection League, asking that the pope no longer wear fur-trimmed capes and hats on official visits (Reuters, April 14, 2007)

"Debt is tearing down schools, clinics, and hospitals, and the effects are no less devastating than war."

--Dr. Adebayo Adedeji of the African Center for Development Strategy, lamenting the $200 billion owed by African nations (AfricaAction.org, April 13, 2007)

"It's hard to discern any spark of divine likeness in the empty faces of the Trash People."

--Elizabeth Lev of Duquesne University's Italian campus, on the 1,000 6-foot figurines made entirely out of refuse by German artist H. A. Scflult in Rome's Piazza del Popolo (Zenit, April 7, 2007)

"Has anyone calculated if one $190 million cathedral project will create more vocations to the priesthood than three $60 million high schools?"

--Bruce Bergondy, protesting the cost of the Oakland, California diocese's new cathedral complex (The Catholic Voice, March 23, 2007)