The images are startling ones, from the time he landed on U.S. soil earlier this week, greeted by a First Family at Andrews Air Force Base, officially welcomed on the White House lawn and serenaded by Kathleen Battle, spontaneous eruptions of Happy Birthday sung by young children, sports stadiums and basilicas filled to capacity with various celebrations and liturgies, Benedict XVI addressing the United Nations or standing as a friend in a Jewish synagogue in Manhattan. But most striking are the comments, repeated daily, and actions emphasizing peace and reconciliation and the value of the human person in the human family, particularly the long awaited and overdue efforts to heal the wounds of scandalous abuse. As best expressed by some of the victims themselves, there can be real healing, and real hope.
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