September, 2019
Philippine Senate hears proposals to legalize divorce
September 20, 2019 · By Catholic News Service for cruxnow.com
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate has begun hearing proposals from various sectors to pass a law to legalize divorce in this predominantly Catholic country. Two divorce bills pending in the Senate propose a six-month cooling-off period after couples file a petition for divorce as a final attempt at reconciliation between estranged spouses, reported ucanews.com. The […]
Read More...Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming
September 19, 2019 · By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent for www.bbc.com
It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2017 […]
Read More...Climate change: Greenland’s ice faces melting ‘death sentence’
September 18, 2019 · By David Shukman for www.bbc.com
Greenland’s massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned. During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a millimetre. Researchers say they’re “astounded” by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around […]
Read More...The fall of plastic, the rise of paper, and the gold rush at the center of 2019’s unlikeliest cultural battle.
September 18, 2019 · By SETH STEVENSON for slate.com
One day in 2015, swimming in waters off Costa Rica, a sea turtle felt himself brusquely hauled from the ocean and onto the deck of a small boat. He struggled against the human hands pinning down his flippers. He endured a biopsy and was affixed with a metal tag. When the researchers noticed an object […]
Read More...Total of 43 convicted sex offenders across Ireland pose ‘high’ risk of re-offending
September 18, 2019 · By Darragh McDonagh for www.irishmirror.ie/a>
A total of 43 convicted sex offenders living in communities across Ireland pose a “high” or “very high” risk of re-offending. Officials said 146 freed perverts are being monitored under the Sex Offender Risk Assessment and Management scheme at the beginning of this year. Aged between 20 to 81, their offences include rape, defilement of […]
Read More...Faster pace of climate change is ‘scary’, former chief scientist says
September 17, 2019 · By Roger Harrabin for www.bbc.com
Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist says. Prof Sir David King says he’s been scared by the number of extreme events, and he called for the UK to advance its climate targets by 10 years. But the UN’s weather […]
Read More...Child casualties ‘rising amid state-sponsored violence’
September 17, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A child rights group in the Philippines has voiced concern over what it says is a growing number of children being caught up in armed conflict and other forms of violence. The Children Rehabilitation Center (CRC) noted that at least 18 children have died due to violence caused by conflict while 58 others were victims of […]
Read More...Philippine bishop tells sex abuse victims to speak out
September 16, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A senior official at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has called on clergy sex abuse victims to speak out and break a “culture of silence.” The laity should speak the truth and should have access to their bishops, conference vice president Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan said Feb. 19. “If there are […]
Read More...Negros Occidental priest charged with rape for allegedly molesting 4-year-old girl
September 16, 2019 · By CNN Philippines Staff for cnnphilippines.com
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 27) — A Catholic priest in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental is facing a rape charge for allegedly molesting a four-year-old girl. Father Aron Buenacosa, parish priest of St. Joseph Parish Church in Barangay Caduha-an, was charged with rape before the Cadiz City Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday for purportedly violating Republic Act […]
Read More...The Street Boys of Saint Teresa of Calcutta
September 13, 2019 ·
The Street Boys of Saint Teresa of Calcutta Fr. Shay Cullen 13 September 2019 After our medical mission to the lepers of Calcutta and cutting flesh, dressing wounds and feeding these poor, wretched people, we returned to the main house. Mother Teresa, as she was always known, welcomed the poor into the houses of the […]
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