Quotable & notable

"If people don't like the product, they are likely to be less generous. We have no power of compulsion."

--Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati talking about his archdiocese's debt and declining revenues

"Just as the biblical Esther was called to save the nation, I cast my vote for another woman called forth in such times as these."

--Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., on voting to elect Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaker of the House of Representatives, the first woman to hold the post

"Beyond the ethical aspects, sowing death and destruction is counterproductive for those who want to fight terrorism."

--Giorgio Bertin, bishop of Djibouti and apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, speaking the day after a U.S. gunship fired on suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in southern Somalia

"If we had a 28th amendment in our Constitution and it was just called "Can I Go Now?' ... I'm not sure George Bush wouldn't exercise it."

--New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman on the PBS Tavis Smiley talk show

"The dark and unremitting truth of clergy sexual abuse ... had to be confronted.... There is much yet to be done to regain confidence and trust."

--Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley writing in The Boston Globe on the fifth anniversary of the Globe's investigation into clergy sex abuse

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