Culture Project brings quest to restore virture in youth to Mooney

YOUNGSTOWN

Two representatives of the Culture Project emphasized recognizing and respecting each individual’s human dignity, during presentations this week to some 75 students in Richard Mattiussi’s theology class at Cardinal Mooney High School.

Becky Frybarger of Reno, Nev., and Nathan Maurer of Columbus are Culture Project missionaries. The website, www.restoreculture.com, describes the effort as “an initiative of young people set out to restore culture through the experience of virtue. We proclaim the dignity of the human person and the richness of living sexual integrity, inviting our culture to become fully alive.”

Frybarger and Maurer’s talk was interspersed with brief videos that intertwined with their message. The first showed daring physical feats. Frybarger told the students that the dangerous stunts weren’t as awesome as each person is.

But, the two noted, the world tends to dehumanize people and make them seem unworthy of love.

They said this was accomplished in various ways, including slavery in the United States, German concentration camps, and today, cyber bullying and human trafficking, which they said is “the second-fastest growing criminal industry, second to drugs.”

Read more about the matter in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.