Pope assails sexual immorality

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Pope Benedict XVI yesterday castigated popular culture for promoting sexual immorality as he canonized Brazil's first native-born saint.

Holding up Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao as a model of rectitude and humility, he said the world needs clear souls and pure minds, adding: "It is necessary to oppose those elements of the media that ridicule the sanctity of marriage and virginity before marriage." *