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The day's other major overseas story saw Pope Benedict XVI continue his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Only CBS assigned a reporter to the Pontiff's visit to Yad Vashem, Israel's national memorial for the Nazi Holocaust. "Being German-born and once a conscript in Hitler's army added meaning as Benedict crossed the stone floor etched with names of Nazi death camps and laid a wreath," narrated Richard Roth. He noted that the Holy Father did not apologize for the Roman Catholic Church's sins of omission or commission "during one of history's darkest episodes." Yet Roth concluded: "There is a burden in this place that, Israelis say, visitors inevitably feel. For Benedict, some said, you could see it weighing on his shoulders as eloquent as any words."
That some said shows some lenience on Roth's part.
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