January, 2019
A child pauses at the Gates of Hell
January 24, 2019 · By Fr Shay Cullen for www.ucanews.com
Fr Shay Cullen, Manila Philippines October 31, 2014 This weekend is the time to look to the saints for inspiration and help, and to pray for the living and the dead. But we don’t need to go to Church to find the saints. There are many among us bravely fighting for justice and the rights […]
Read More...Lack of psychologists in gov’t hospitals hampers healing of abused children
January 23, 2019 · By Marishka Cabrera (Vera Files) for www.philstar.com
(First of two parts) MANILA, Philippines — Ella (not her real name) was brought to the child protection unit of the Philippine General Hospital after a jeepney driver raped her when she was five years old. She was abused inside the jeepney where she and her family slept at night. A neighbor caught her abuser […]
Read More...New Bedford man charged with child abuse ordered held
January 23, 2019 · By South Coast Today for www.southcoasttoday.com
FALL RIVER — A New Bedford man was found dangerous and ordered held without bail in Superior Court on charges he assaulted an infant, the DA’s office said. Robert P. Trommenschlager, 31, was ordered held for six months by Judge Raffi Yessayan, after a pre-trial detention hearing, according to Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for Bristol […]
Read More...Hartford Archdiocese identifies 48 priests accused of sexual abuse
January 23, 2019 · By DAVE ALTIMARI , JESSE LEAVENWORTH and DAVID OWENS for www.courant.com
When John T. O’Connor retired in 1997 after 50 years as a priest, parishioners at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Newington named their parish hall after him. On Tuesday, after the Hartford Archdiocese included O’Connor in a list it made public of Catholic clergymen who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, […]
Read More...Child sexual abuse is the internet’s darkest secret
January 22, 2019 · By Kailash Satyarthi for www.telegraph.co.uk
A 59-year-old European man is currently awaiting extradition to France after abusing two girls in their early teens in Madagascar. One of the survivors testified that the man, who took nude photographs of both girls and put them online, sexually assaulted her. This is far from an isolated case. Child sexual abuse has emerged as […]
Read More...‘Planetary health diet’ aims to feed 10 billion people without causing ‘catastrophic’ environmental damage
January 22, 2019 · By James Gallagher for geneticliteracyproject.org
A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet. Scientists have been trying to figure out how we are going to feed billions more people in the decades to come. Their answer – “the planetary health diet” – does not completely […]
Read More...‘Halve consumption of red meat and sugar to save the planet’
January 22, 2019 · By John von Radowitz for www.independent.ie
A “planetary health diet” requiring a massive shift from meat to vegetable consumption is needed to protect the well-being of future generations and the planet, according to a major international report. Moving to healthier, more sustainable eating habits around the world could prevent 11 million premature deaths globally per year by 2050, scientists claim. It […]
Read More...Vatican editor says Pope must face questions on women, sex abuse
January 21, 2019 ·
ROSARIO, Argentina – According to an Italian historian who presides over a monthly Vatican magazine on women, both women and clerical sexual abuse are problems that will continue to dog Pope Francis until they’re resolved. “[A] question arises, that of women who are nonexistent and invisible in the eyes of ecclesiastical hierarchies, accustomed to taking […]
Read More...10-Year-Old ‘Child Drag Star’ Photographed Posing with Naked Adult Drag Queen
January 21, 2019 · By Kayla Koslosky | ChristianHeadlines.com Editor for www.christianheadlines.com
According to CBN News, a London Magazine called Huck recently ran a piece about Mélançon-Golden, whose stage name is “Queen Lactacia,” marking him as the most famed “child drag star in Canada.” The piece featured several photos of the young boy dressed in drag and surrounded by other drag queens. One photo that did not make the […]
Read More...The warming of the planet
January 18, 2019 ·
The warming of the planet Fr. Shay Cullen January 16, 2019 There is something strange and unusual happening to our world and every one of us will be impacted. The Indigenous people of the Philippines, the Aeta have survived for as many 30,000 years, they have survived by their unique survival skills in the rain […]
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