“In the Name of Every Man Who Hurt You, Forgive Me”, by Kevin Wells

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 19,2025

Kevin Wells’s latest book, Coached By the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney was just released by Scepter. His memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press last autumn. For more information on his books, writing, and speaking, visit kevinwells.org.

The haunting 2023 film, “The Sound of Freedom,” was a small window into a world made up of unspeakable human horrors. The coming sequel is sure to let more light into that darkness.

Eduardo Verástegui’s tearful plea came before 3,000 girls at Girlstown in Chalco, Mexico, a fraction of the 20,000 children the Sisters of Mary mother back to health worldwide—children the Mexican actor has come to cherish.

The sun was sinking against two snow-capped volcanoes when Eduardo Verástegui looked out over a sea of teenage girls who sat before him in a mammoth gymnasium in Mexico. They wore blue skirts, white blouses, bobby socks, and black saddle shoes—like figures from an old black-and-white drawing pulled from a chapter on purity in the Baltimore Catechism. ….

The former playboy and heartthrob knew who these girls were. They were his native land’s bullied and forgotten ones, the pure victims from Guerrero, Oaxaca, Durango, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco, and numberless other villages torn apart by gangs, corruption, and the violence of poverty. Many of them had survived depraved acts inflicted by men. ….

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