Fr. Shay’s Articles
The Challenges of 2017
January 3, 2017 ·
The Challenges of 2017 Father Shay Cullen December 28, 2016 This coming 2017 will be a momentous year for the political and moral landscape of the planet. There is a rising tide of political and moral challenges facing humanity. Pope Francis will continue his historic reforms of the Church and the Curia, bringing back the […]
Read More...What is the Happiness of Christmas?
December 12, 2016 ·
What is the Happiness of Christmas? Fr. Shay Cullen 9 December 2016 What is it that makes Christmas so beautiful, so cheerful and a happy time especially for children? It has to be the gift-giving, the time when children look forward to gifts and signs of love and caring and sharing. The children of some […]
Read More...Violence Against the Minors
December 2, 2016 ·
Violence Against the Minors Fr. Shay Cullen 4 December 2016 The greatest challenge of the war on drugs for President Rodrigo Duterte is the proliferation of the daily dangerous drugs sales in the twenty thousand or so sex bars and karaoke clubs in the red light districts of the Philippines. His greatest success and legacy […]
Read More...Children Are Not Criminals
November 25, 2016 ·
Children Are Not Criminals Father Shay Cullen 23 November 2016 There are some haunting images from the past when children as young as 6 years old were incarcerated in jail behind iron bars and mixed with adults in prison cells where they were abused by pedophiles. Hungry children jailed as criminals for begging on the […]
Read More...Articles of Fr. Shay Cullen
November 22, 2016 ·
STOP THE CRIMINALIZING OF FILIPINO CHILDREN Fr. Shay Cullen 22 November 2016 There is an ongoing debate in the Philippine congress to lower the age of criminal liability for children from 15 years to 9 years old as it was in the Penal Code of 1930. This is regressive,against the best interests of the child […]
Read More...Racism, A Factor in the Election of a President
November 18, 2016 ·
Racism, A Factor in the Election of a President Fr. Shay Cullen 18 November 2016 The election of a president in a free democracy is one of the most important political exercises that can be done by the electorate. What has motivated the electorate of the United States to put into the most powerful position […]
Read More...An Award for the Human Rights Workers and the Poor
November 11, 2016 ·
An Award for the Human Rights Workers and the Poor Fr. Shay Cullen Delivered on the occasion of the awarding of the Mons. Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award, The Avenue Hotel, Killarney 5 November 2016 Dear friends and supporters and defenders of human rights, I am honored tonight to be here to receive the Monsignor […]
Read More...Human Dignity is the Right of All
November 4, 2016 ·
Human Dignity is the Right of All Fr. Shay Cullen 4 November 2016 We are bombarded daily by the news and images of violence and mayhem. The bombing of Yemen and Aleppo, the horrific war in Iraq and Syria, conflicts in Sudan in Africa and with the deaths and suffering of migrants and refugees fleeing […]
Read More...There Was Jonathan
October 28, 2016 ·
There Was Jonathan Fr. Shay Cullen, mssc 28 October 2016 There was Jonathan, a 16-year old teenager. He was from a broken home where love no longer held together a family. There was poverty that kept food from the table and from the mouths of his brother and sisters. Jonathan saw the last of his […]
Read More...A silence that is consent to abuse
October 21, 2016 ·
A silence that is consent to abuse Fr.Shay Cullen. 20 October 2016 In the world today where violence and the violation of human rights is marked by a reluctance to take a stand against evil, not to report child abuse, not to oppose torture and murder is a failure to confront criminal behavior. It is […]
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