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All three networks followed Pope Benedict XVI as he traveled to New York City to address the United Nations. ABC's Dan Harris saw him receive "a standing ovation." His speech was on the general virtues of human rights, CBS' Byron Pitts observed, with "no direct mention of Iraq or the Middle East." On NBC, Natalie Morales offered a follow-up on the pontiff's private meeting at the Vatican Embassy Thursday with five adults from the Boston Archdiocese who had been sexually assaulted, reportedly by pedophile priests when they were children. It turns out that one of the five, Faith Johnson "was raped by a priest when she was just 15," according to Morales. Morales continued to refer to the scandal by the "pedophile priests" label, even though that refers to sex with pre-pubescent children. The rape of an adolescent, while outrageous, falls outside that category.
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