Fr. Shay’s Articles
Family Makes Us Who We Are, Loved and Forgiven (Part 2)
October 31, 2014 ·
October 11, 2014 11:06 pm by Father Shay Cullen Second of two parts WHEN there is real, mature family and parental love of children, there will be loads of affirmation, understanding, trust, encouragement and inspiration created by the good example of the parents and older brothers and sisters. These will result in fulfilled and satisfied […]
Read More...Our Family Made Us As We Are (Part 1)
October 31, 2014 ·
October 11, 2014 11:06 pm by Father Shay Cullen WHILE the Pope, cardinals and hundreds of bishops and theologians meet in Rome to discuss the Church’s teaching on family life, all of us ought to be concerned as most of us were born into a family, either good, bad, broken or dysfunctional or none at […]
Read More...Children of the Sex Trade
October 31, 2014 ·
October 4, 2014 by Father Shay Cullen SALZBURG, AUSTRIA: President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd is being petitioned by hundreds of fair traders across Austria this past week who are signing a letter asking him to stop sex tourism in the Philippines. Meeting in the historic city of Salzburg, the business leaders appealed to him to turn […]
Read More...Saving and healing the jailed children of poverty
October 31, 2014 ·
October 31, 2014 by Father Shay Cullen Ricardo, 13, was squatting at the corner of an overcrowded cell, his head was resting on his knees and his hands covered his head. He was hiding his child-like face. It was a defensive posture for self-protection. He was a youth prisoner without being charged and with no […]
Read More...Who permits the sex industry?
October 30, 2014 ·
October 28, 2014 Fr. Shay Cullen The brutal murder of Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude, 26, a transgender person in a hotel near the Subic Bay Freeport Zone last October 11, 2014 allegedly by US serviceman Pvt. 1st Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the US Marine Corps, who has been charged by Philippine police, highlights the ever […]
Read More...Palestine and Israel need an impossible dream
October 7, 2014 ·
The Palestinian death toll had reached 1,360 by the end of July, mostly civilians, women and children. Hundreds more had been injured. Fifty-eight Israelis had been killed, 56 soldiers and two civilians. Sixteen Palestinians died when an Israeli shell hit a United Nations (UN) school where 3,000 refugees were sheltering. UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, […]
Read More...Healing through emotional expression therapy
October 3, 2014 ·
We have all had some disappointment, sadness, hurt or emotional pain in our lives. Some has remained with us a lifetime. It is this emotional pain that we carry through life unresolved and something we want to forget, get over and banish from our memory. We want to forget. But it is something that is always deep within.
Read More...The most important in the Kingdom
September 19, 2014 ·
September 6, 2014 10:44 pm Recently I was talking to a group of forty young boys who had been taken out of filthy jails and sub-human conditions in the so-called youth detention centers of Metro Manila. I told them, “You are the children of God and the most important in God’s family. That’s why […]
Read More...Tödliche Angriffe auf Akteure des Fairen Handels
September 18, 2014 ·
13.09.2014 GEWALT Wer in Entwicklungsländern für faire Löhne und Arbeitsbedingungen kämpft, geht Risiken ein. Oft bleibt es nicht bei Drohungen VON MIRKO HEINEMANN 15. März 2014, am frühen Samstagabend mitten in Oton, einer Kleinstadt auf der philippinischen Insel Panay: Romeo Robles Capalla, Vorstandsvorsitzender und Mitgründer der Genossenschaft Panay Fair Trade Center (PFTC), besuchte den Wochenmarkt, […]
Read More...Syria – choosing the lesser evil
September 11, 2014 ·
September 7, 2013 10:47 pm The attention of the international news media is focused on what the United States will do to prevent the Assad regime from using abhorrent chemical weapons again. The US Senate has given the go-signal to President Obama. The alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that Assad and his followers […]
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