I came across a moving document which appeared on Vatican radio–letters from detained young prisoners in California organized by Mike Kennedy S.J. If the right wing Catholics did not get the pope's gesture, these young prisoners did. Quite lovely reading. You can find it here. 

John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.