The Pope's impromptu  planned visit last week with victims of clergy sexual abuse has been widely reported. In a New York Times report on April 16 entitled, "Abuse Victims Not Placated by Pope", Becky Ianni, a 50-year-old abuse victim said,

“He talks about feeling shame for the scandal but it’s a far cry from the shame that victims have had to live with our entire lives. We don’t really need his sense of shame."

She's right, of course. Yet many news outlets reported all week that the Pope visited with the "survivors", not the "victims."   It seems to me that calling the victims "survivors", even though they truly are, softens the terrible act and does more to add to the shame that Ms. Ianni and so many others do note need to endure.

Shame on the news media. These individuals are victims of abuse, even if they are also survivors of despicable actions of individual members of the clergy.

Enough said.