Pope Benedict meets privately with victims of sexual abuse

Disproving the false notion that Pope Benedict somehow doesn't care about the victims of abuse:

• John Allen reports: "In an unexpected and essentially unprecedented move, Pope Benedict XVI met quietly with five victims of clerical sexual abuse this afternoon at the Vatican’s embassy to the United States, located in Washington, D.C.
  Prior to this afternoon, no pope had ever met with victims of sexual abuse by priests. That omission has been oft-cited by critics of the church’s response to the crisis as an indication that Rome and the papacy are out of touch with American realities, or in denial about the magnitude of the problem."
• CNS provides more: "Father Lombardi said it was a very emotional meeting; some were in tears."
• The Vatican noted the meeting in an official press release.