members. but i think really the most -- first of all, alex, this meeting was expected. we didn't know when it was going to happen but we always expected that somewhere along this trip in the u.s. that the pope would meet with sexual abuse victims just because of what the impact of the scandal had been on the catholic church and the still resounding effects of that scandal. he really has two audiences here to three audiences, i think, today as he held that meeting. first, the most important audience were those five people there who he spoke to and listened to as he said taking their stories into his heart. that's a very important audience. the next audience is to his fellow priests to say, you know, i understand the pain you have been through, i understand that you bear the burden of shame for what some of your brother priests have done, but then the third audience is is to the larger church and that's where
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