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By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - 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.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - More than a month ago, Archbishop Guy de Kerimel of Toulouse made the appalling decision to appoint a convicted rapist as chancellor of his archdiocese. He explained that he had “taken the side of mercy,” since after serving his prison term for the felony, Father Dominique Spina remained ineligible for any ordinary pastoral ministry... The appointment caused anger and astonishment. Was it really possible that after years of outrage over clerical abuse, an archbishop could show such sympathy for the abuser, while ignoring the impact that his decision would have on those who had been abused? ...

By Paul Seaton, Catholic World Report - Benedict XVI coined a phrase—“secular culture”—to capture a global threat to our humanity. In it, technological rationality is deemed the highest version of reason. In truth, however, it distorts its objects and cuts humanity off from the deepest wells of spiritual and moral wisdom. Turned toward nature, it fails to listen to the logos in creation; turned toward man, it denies his God-given dignity and reduces him to manipulable matter. ...