Diners at fun Italian, family-style restaurant Buca di Beppo are up in arms over the restaurant's decision to remove the bust of JP II from the center of the large tables in its "pope dining room." The original plan was to donate the busts to Catholic schools. However, customers are furious, clamoring to see their old friend who adorned the table.
My own take is that the busts should still be donated, and they should impose a Buca Interregnum, a vacany of the apostolic place setting, until new busts of the next pope can be created.