March, 2017
Father admits manslaughter of three-year-old daughter who suffered sex abuse so violent she bled in nappies
March 6, 2017 · By Peter Walker for www.independent.co.uk
A father has admitted the manslaughter of his three-year-old daughter who suffered sexual abuse so violent that she bled in her nappies. Matthew Lee Williamson pleaded guilty on the grounds he did not seek medical attention for Kyhesha-Lee Joughin in the fortnight before her death. The Brisbane Supreme Court in Australia has heard how she […]
Read More...Life is for Living
March 3, 2017 ·
Life is for Living Fr. Shay Cullen 4 March 2017 Life is for living. It is to experience freedom to love and help others, to be free to grow and have family. To be human is to be free from fear and punishment and ill health, poverty and hunger. Living is to be free to […]
Read More...Forced smiles mask pain of Hong Kong’s trafficked bar girls from PHL
March 2, 2017 · By SYLVIA YU, Thomson Reuters Foundation for www.gmanetwork.com
HONG KONG – As she smiles at customers and makes small talk with regulars in a Hong Kong bar, Kat’s every move is being watched by an older woman, a pimp who answers to the name “Mama-san.” The 23-year-old from the Philippines has been forced to sell sex for Mama-san and her organized crime network […]
Read More...Understanding Francis
March 1, 2017 · By Cardinal Vincent Nichols for www.thetablet.co.uk
Two words are at the heart of the Pope’s drive to reform the Church: accompaniment and discernment. And they are key to understanding the document at the centre of increasingly heated debate, Amoris Laetitia Pope Francis has made it clear what he wants to achieve in and for the Church. In his apostolic letter, Misericordia […]
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