Fr. Shay’s Articles
CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US
May 20, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen, Mssc The sights, sounds, and smells that assailed me as I was walking through the devastated chaos and destruction of Tacloban city in the Philippines last year, soon after the most powerful storm ever to hit land, made me realize that this was the future. This utter devastation wrecked by a […]
Read More...SILENCE ABOUT CHILD ABUSE IS A CRIME
May 15, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There is growing international clamor for the filtering and blocking of child pornography and cyber-sex on the internet. The Philippine National Telecommunications Commission is under the national and international spotlight for not implementing the anti-child porn law law since 2009. They have promised to do it by June, five years […]
Read More...JOURNALISTS – GIVING THEIR LIVES FOR THE TRUTH
May 6, 2014 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen The Philippines is quickly becoming the killing fields for journalists, reporters, and writers with 14 killed in 2013; ten of them by suspected assassination squads. According to the International News Safety Institute (INSI) based in the UK, this makes the Philippines the third most dangerous place in the world for news reporters […]
Read More...I WALKED WITH THE SAINTS
April 30, 2014 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen Now that Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII have been canonized Saints, I suppose I can now say that I walked with a saint, I talked with a saint and I photographed a saint. Just as thousands have done during his many travels and his public appearances. It is a beautiful […]
Read More...The Meaning of Easter
April 14, 2014 ·
Fr.Shay Cullen This is the sacred time of year when we recall the life and death and resurrection of Jesus,the man from Nazareth. His life commitment to goodness and self-sacrifice as a champion of the poor and the oppressed led to his arrest torture and execution at the hands of the unjust and cruel authorities. […]
Read More...Trafficking in Innocence after the storm
April 10, 2014 ·
By Shay Cullen, SSC Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year-old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning to rescue the child, just one of thousands of children trafficked for sexual abuse each year in the Philippines.and […]
Read More...The ISPs must obey the anti-child porn law
April 2, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Child pornography and cyber-sex involving minors is a serious crime against the person and dignity of the child. The Philippines is becoming a leading source of these illegal images and children are being abused in the making and distribution of them. The child porn images are spread around the world through […]
Read More...RELIGIONS UNITE AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS
March 31, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It was a solemn moment in the great meeting hall in the Vatican where the joint agreement and statement was to be signed by the representatives of the great world religions. It was not some lofty, irrelevant declaration to work for mutual respect for different faiths but to launch the “Global Freedom […]
Read More...Philippine Fair Trade Manager Assassinated
March 28, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Fair trade is all about working for justice, for the poor, the downtrodden, the impoverished and exploited people. It strives to lift them up to a life of dignity and greater opportunity in a non-violent, peaceful way through economic development. Fair Trade is a practical way to respect the rights and […]
Read More...The injustice that leads to violence.
March 17, 2014 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The massacre of 20 elementary school children and six teachers at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut on 14 December 2012 continues to mystify psychologists and social workers ,they and most people cannot explain what drove the killer to such wanton violence. He killed his mother some hours earlier that day and as police closed […]
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