Fr. Shay’s Articles
The Future of the Natural World
May 10, 2019 ·
The Future of the Natural World Fr. Shay Cullen May 10, 2019 We humans, the species on this planet with the large brains, so-called intelligence and abilities and power to change the face of our planet, are doing so with a huge negative impact. We are endangering ourselves, our children and grandchildren and generations of […]
Read More...Why the Climate is Changing
May 3, 2019 ·
Why the Climate is Changing Fr. Shay Cullen 4 May 2019 The students are on the streets, waving banners, banging drums, singing, chanting, and calling for an end to the causes driving climate change that is wrecking the planet. They see the global warming caused by huge amounts of CO2 and methane gases heating up […]
Read More...Selling Children to the Sex Trade
April 26, 2019 ·
Selling Children to the Sex Trade Fr. Shay Cullen May 2019 Human trafficking is the most widespread crime against persons and is the third biggest earning business in the world after drug trafficking and arms smuggling. The earnings are estimated to be 32 billion US dollars a year, according to a UN report. Human trafficking […]
Read More...When We Celebrate Easter
April 19, 2019 ·
When We Celebrate Easter Fr.Shay Cullen 19 April, 2019 Easter is the time we recall the tragic events of two thousand and nineteen years ago when a Jew, a man from Palestine, was spied upon, betrayed, persecuted, falsely charged, vilified, abandoned and arrested. It started in a mock trial that handed down the death penalty […]
Read More...The Evil Web of Human Trafficking
April 12, 2019 ·
The Evil Web of Human Trafficking Fr. Shay Cullen 14 April 2019 The most recent case of human trafficking that I have been involved in, and they are many, is that of Angelica- a 15-year-old girl sold by her mother to her employer. He is a rough, crude man, the owner of several mini-buses and […]
Read More...Child Sexual Abuse in the Institutional Church
April 5, 2019 ·
Child Sexual Abuse in the Institutional Church Fr. Shay Cullen 5 April, 2019 There are serious and profound changes taking place in the Catholic Church to acknowledge and prevent child sexual abuse by clerics and lay people, to prosecute the perpetrators and to heal the victims. It is the belated result of generations of historical […]
Read More...The Empowerment of Women and Children
March 29, 2019 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Empowerment of Women and Children Fr. Shay Cullen 29 March 2019 There is a rising tide of people power in the world today and it is female power. Women are standing up and speaking out as never before and more people are sitting up and listening to what they have to say. Their message […]
Read More...Will Senators Vote to Send Children to Jail?
March 22, 2019 ·
Will Senators Vote to Send Children to Jail? Fr. Shay Cullen 21 March 2019 We entered the so-called Bahay Pagasa, “House of Hope.” It turned out to be a children’s jail. We brought snacks and drinks to share with the young people in the cells. About twenty-five girls were crowded into one room. No air […]
Read More...The Culture of Fear and Silence
March 15, 2019 ·
The Culture of Fear and Silence Fr. Shay Cullen 14 March 2019 Twenty young girls, some of them only 14 years of age, were finally rescued from the Victory Hotel that caters to foreign sex tourists in Mabacalat, Pampanga, a few kilometers north of Angeles City by the anti-trafficking police unit in Camp Crame, […]
Read More...The Moral and Civil Rule of Law
March 8, 2019 ·
The Moral and Civil Rule of Law Fr. Shay Cullen 8 March 2019 What is it that keeps a family, a community, a nation from the brink of chaos, uncontrolled corruption, grave injustice and prevents violent attacks, assassinations and mayhem? What brings civilized living, cooperation and development to a people? It is the […]
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