March, 2013
Resurrection for child prisoners
March 27, 2013 ·
Written by FR. SHAY CULLEN The rescue from the danger, humiliation and fear of life behind bars was like a resurrection, the start of a new life for the hundreds of children released from the death-like experience of prison life and brought to an open plan youth home. Misery, sadness and suicidal thoughts plague thousands […]
Read More...THE BRAVE STRUGGLE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
March 19, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The pristine sands of Boracay Island, the popular Philippine tourist destination near Kalibo-Aklan, is stained with the blood of the innocent. Dexter Condez, a young 26 year-old lay missionary with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was shot dead on the island as he was returning home from a meeting […]
Read More...THE NEW POPE’S GREATEST CHALLENGE
March 12, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There are those Church leaders that exist in the present but their mind and heart is buried in the past. There are those that live in the present but cannot see the future and have forgotten the past. There are those who combine the best of the past and the present and […]
Read More...THE CHURCH IN CRISES
March 6, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There is a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, not a crisis of faith, but crises of leadership, of moral authority, a crisis of institutional management and good governance and administration. The conclave of Cardinals has a tough task ahead of them as they gather to choose a successor to recently resigned […]
Read More...POPE FRANCIS’ GREATEST CHALLENGE
March 1, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There are those Church leaders that exist in the present but their mind and heart is buried in the past. There are those that live in the present but cannot see the future and have forgotten the past. There are those who combine the best of the past and the present and […]
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