Fr. Shay’s Articles
The Resilience of Abused Children and Women
March 10, 2017 ·
The Resilience of Abused Children and Women Fr. Shay Cullen 8 March 2017 Women are the greatest survivors, the most resilient and the most abused. Much of it starts in childhood and they carry it all their lives. Angel is a 13-year old girl, still very much a child, needing attention, care, protection therapy, […]
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...Stories and Statistics of Children Behind Bars
February 17, 2017 ·
Stories and Statistics of Children Behind Bars Father Shay Cullen 17 February 2017 The Philippine congress is debating to lower the minimum age of criminal liability from 15 years of age to nine years. Those promoting the change in the law say children are criminals and are being used by drug syndicates to commit crimes […]
Read More...Hear the Cries of Victims of Sexual Abuse
February 10, 2017 ·
Hear the Cries of Victims of Sexual Abuse Shay Cullen 10 February 2017 The shocking and almost unbelievable disclosures in recent years throughout the developed world and most recently in Australia at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse leave people shocked and staggering at the revelations. The enquiry is looking into […]
Read More...Suspects are not Humanity, says Justice Secretary
February 3, 2017 ·
Suspects are not Humanity, says Justice Secretary Fr. Shay Cullen 2 February 2017 Small children of nine years old are to be branded as criminals and to be held responsible for childhood mistakes. Stealing when they are hungry and abandoned. Fighting back when they are abused and bullied. They cry when there is no one […]
Read More...Criminals at Nine Years Old?
January 27, 2017 ·
Criminals at Nine Years Old? Father Shay Cullen 25 January 2017 Andres is just one10-year old child and he has lived on the streets of Metro Manila most of his life like thousands of other street children. They are abandoned, work as scavengers, market boys or girls and are vulnerable to sexual and physical abuse […]
Read More...Cybersex, Crime of the Century
January 20, 2017 ·
Cybersex, Crime of the Century Father Shay Cullen 19 January 2017 The photograph in itself is a kind of pornography of the wealthiest oligarchs, tycoons, money-magnets, business moguls, elite Industrialists, rogue capitalists, barons of industry and financial tyrants and heads of corporate conglomerates some ethical business people, call them what you will but words fail […]
Read More...Justice for Abused Children
January 13, 2017 ·
Justice for Abused Children Fr Shay Cullen 13 January 2017 She was a very traumatized and broken 15-year old child, continuously raped and abused by her own father until she was rescued by the Preda social workers and brought to the Preda Home for Girls. Had Gina not had a refuge free from fear and […]
Read More...Respect for Life and Human Dignity
January 6, 2017 ·
Respect for Life and Human Dignity Father Shay Cullen, mssc 6 January 2017 Bennie had a thin, hollow face, the picture of malnutrition at 22 years of age, he had never been to school for more than a few months, could not read or write and he was a one-meal man. He ate once a […]
Read More...The Challenges of 2017
January 3, 2017 ·
The Challenges of 2017 Father Shay Cullen December 28, 2016 This coming 2017 will be a momentous year for the political and moral landscape of the planet. There is a rising tide of political and moral challenges facing humanity. Pope Francis will continue his historic reforms of the Church and the Curia, bringing back the […]
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