At Reuters, Philip Pullella reports on Pope Francis’s meeting with adult victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clerics on Monday. The meeting, which lasted nearly four hours, included a Mass and individual meetings with six victims from Ireland, Britain, and Germany. According to a Vatican transcript, in his homily, the Pope said, “Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.”