Fr. Shay’s Articles
The Power of Global Advocacy
September 4, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Power of Global Advocacy Fr. Shay Cullen 4 September 2020 The power of global advocacy has ignited an investigation by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) into the torture and abuse of young boys previously jailed behind bars in detention centers in the Philippines but freed by the legal and social action of […]
Read More...Greenland is melting, Islands have disappeared
August 28, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Greenland is melting, Islands have disappeared Fr. Shay Cullen 28 August 2020 I loathe the cold and love the warm. Who doesn’t? I grew up in Ireland where spring and winter was always very cold. In the 1950’s central heating was rare. We stayed warm by burning coal in open grates and used kerosene oil […]
Read More...We All Must Change to Defeat Covid-19
August 24, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
We All Must Change to Defeat Covid-19 Fr. Shay Cullen 21 August 2020 The catastrophe is upon us. The world is suffering and in shock as hundreds of thousands of people are dying from the coronavirus and economies are in chaos. This is because humans disrupted the natural world and caused this deadly virus to […]
Read More...The Corporations and the Sex Slavery of Children
August 14, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Corporations and the Sex Slavery of Children Fr. Shay Cullen 14 August 2020 At no other time in the history of mankind has there been so many humans enslaved throughout the world. The population explosion in the past fifty years, the great disparity of rich and poor and the vulnerability of the impoverished youth […]
Read More...How We Can Undo Injustice and Help Indigenous Communities
August 7, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
How We Can Undo Injustice and Help Indigenous Communities Fr. Shay Cullen 09 August 2020 He was in his mid-twenties, young, dedicated, a defender of the trees and the ecology of his native Amazon rain forest and guardian of his community. Paulo Paulino Guajajara is the latest of many indigenous people shot and killed in […]
Read More...The Arms Trade is Killing Thousands of Women and Children
July 30, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Arms Trade is Killing Thousands of Women and Children Fr. Shay Cullen 31 July 2020 The drums of war are beating ever louder as arms traders supply weapons for the war in the Middle East while the superpowers line up in confrontational posturing in a show of might and military power. “Might is right” […]
Read More...Human Trafficking is a Global Challenge
July 24, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Human Trafficking is a Global Challenge Fr. Shay Cullen 24 July 2020 When the group of eight teenagers was first referred to the Preda Home for Girls, they were still in shock having been taken into police custody during a rescue. What they did not realize was they had been victimized and exploited by unscrupulous […]
Read More...Just Judges Implement the Law for Abused Children
July 17, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Just Judges Implement the Law for Abused Children Fr. Shay Cullen 17 July 2020 Justice has been done and seen to be done by Judge Maria Angelica T. Paras-Quiambao of the Regional Trial Court Branch 59 in Angeles City, Pampanga last 11 June 2020. In a 81-page decision, she found Christina Limpin Mendoza, 22, guilty […]
Read More...Drug Corporations Rule the World- Almost
July 10, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Drug Corporations Rule the World- Almost Fr. Shay Cullen. 10 July 2010 People sick from Covid-19 in the Europe, Africa, the Philippines and the rest of Asia gasping and struggling to recover in a hospital bed will have to struggle harder to survive. This is because the only drug known to help patients recover quicker, […]
Read More...History is Made as Social Issues Challenge Politics
July 3, 2020 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
History is Made as Social Issues Challenge Politics Fr. Shay Cullen 2 July 2020 Something has happened that is really changing the world besides the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is changing our lifestyles, our economy and medical practices. But a greater social movement is underway as seen in numerous demonstrations by many thousands of protesters […]
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