Topic: Inequality
A Mission in Life
October 4, 2013 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen We have to have a mission in life, to make it meaningful,with purpose and to live more fully.The mission can be to accomplish any good work,motivated by a spiritual value of compassion, love of justice, care of others,empathy and solidarity with the sick, the oppressed and lonely. These inner convictions and commitments […]
Read More...THE G8 ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT SAYS COAL PLANTS ARE THE WORST OF ALL
June 7, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Dublin and Northern Ireland. The shocking revelation that environmental damages caused by economic activities like coal plant electrical generation and mining is costing the global economy as much as US$4.7 trillion a year. The report released last 15 April was commissioned by the Group of Eight economic powers and the United Nation’s Environmental Programme. […]
Read More...Wealthy Ruling elites grab the congressional seats reserved for the poor
June 4, 2013 ·
At least 29 out of 53 party list reps proclaimed by Comelec are from political clans, former government officials, multi-millionaires by Arnold Padilla (Radical’s Nut) More than two weeks after the May 2013 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finally proclaimed, albeit still incomplete, the winning party list groups. Looking at the composition of […]
Read More...Inquirer report: In the Senate, the rich get richer
May 22, 2013 ·
Talk about the rich getting richer. Nobody did it better than outgoing Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar whose wealth increased by some P600 million last year, largely because of the country’s soaring stock market. Shares of stock, most likely in Vista Land and Star Malls, publicly listed property firms that his family controls, account for the […]
Read More...CELEBRATING THE POSITIVE POWER OF FAIR TRADE
May 9, 2013 ·
by: Fr. Shay Cullen There are hundreds of thousands of good people around the world trying to make a difference in the lives of the poor and exploited people of this planet. They are working to see that the poor rise above subsistence living and have a dignified human and prosperous life. These good people are deeply […]
Read More...Top 100 Billionaires could end world poverty four times over.
January 23, 2013 ·
Oxfam: “Top 100 billionaires added $240 Billion of wealth in 2012 -enough to end world poverty four times over” “We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true.” ~Jeremy Hobbs – Executive Director, Oxfam International It’s amazing how many […]
Read More...We can all do justice as responsible consumers
November 8, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
We can all do justice as responsible consumers by Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Panfilo 57, is a carpenter, vegetable and mango farmer from Moriki, Kapalong, Davao Del Norte. In1986 he planted fifty one mango trees and […]
Read More...The Rich Grow Richer, the Poor Poorer
August 3, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Margie was just a young woman, about 23, freshly trafficked and lured from the province to the Philippine sex industry in Angeles city with the promise of earning money as a waitress to help her family. Still innocent in the ways of the lustful officials, sex tourists and bar operators, she applied last 25th June for a work […]
Read More...The Enemy Within
July 27, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Many people were inspired and uplifted to hear the resounding words of President Noynoy Aquino in his State of the Nation Address recently: “nothing is impossible to a united nation.” Millions of people wish it were so. For Filipinos to be united in bonds of fraternity, justice, equality, the rule of law, compassion and modest […]
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