Rick Santorum: “As head of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization and as a former member of the United States Commission on…”

“As head of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization and as a former member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, I am dismayed that the course of Mr. Pryor's nomination compels me to make a point which by now should be obvious: a good Catholic can also be a good public servant. Much as I would wish otherwise, a continuation of the trend that critics of Mr. Pryor's nomination have set in motion will compel American Catholics to face religious bigotry of a kind many of us thought to be extinct in this nation.”