Fake Apologies
The pope has issued a fake apology:
"At this time I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," the pope said Sunday.

This is one of those fake apologies you'll hear from a human resource manager fending of legitimate employee complaints or a manager enjoying further frustrating someone they've wronged.

"I'm sorry you feel that way," is how it's usually thrown. The sentence contains "sorry" but is equivalent to, "I don't have a problem, you clearly have the problem since you're upset," or with an example, "it's regretful that you're upset I punched you in the mouth."

The classic managerial fake apology is a deflection of responsibility. It says volumes about the person issuing it. They either won't accept responsibility for what they've done wrong (see the pope or any member of the Bush crime family) or can't accept it (due to either a lack of power to change a situation or a due an inability to accept that they could do something wrong).

Nevermind that no one is fooled by a fake apology:
Mahmoud Ashour, the former deputy of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, the Sunni Arab world's most powerful institution, told Al-Arabiya TV immediately after the pope's speech that, "It is not enough. He should apologize because he insulted the beliefs of Islam. He must apologize in a frank way and say he made a mistake."
Mohammed al-Nujeimi, a professor at the Institute of Judicial and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, also criticized the pope's statement.
"The pope does not want to apologize. He is evading apology and what he said today is a repetition of his previous statement," he told Al-Arabiya TV.

The issuer of a fake apology will rarely give a genuine apology or express true regret. These types apologize as a last resort - and how genuine can an apology be if it's a last resort - and most never will commit such an egregious act of humility (see Ken Lay).