Fr. Shay’s Articles
THE NEW POPE’S GREATEST CHALLENGE
March 12, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There are those Church leaders that exist in the present but their mind and heart is buried in the past. There are those that live in the present but cannot see the future and have forgotten the past. There are those who combine the best of the past and the present and […]
Read More...THE CHURCH IN CRISES
March 6, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There is a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, not a crisis of faith, but crises of leadership, of moral authority, a crisis of institutional management and good governance and administration. The conclave of Cardinals has a tough task ahead of them as they gather to choose a successor to recently resigned […]
Read More...POPE FRANCIS’ GREATEST CHALLENGE
March 1, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There are those Church leaders that exist in the present but their mind and heart is buried in the past. There are those that live in the present but cannot see the future and have forgotten the past. There are those who combine the best of the past and the present and […]
Read More...A BLEMISH ON PHILIPPINE TOURISM
February 27, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Last January 4, 2013 in Butuan City, the alert and committed employees of the Almont Inland Hotel and Convention Center saw a foreigner bringing five young boys into his hotel room and to their credit they immediately called the police. The police team led by Chief Inspector Reynate Sibayton and Marizan Liza […]
Read More...WHEN A POPE RESIGNS
February 18, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen It is 719 years since a Pope resigned the Papacy and stepped down from the Seat of Peter. What led up to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is a matter of much discussion and reflection. Will it usher in a new practice where Popes will be expected to resign like […]
Read More...SAVING THE TRAFFICKED WOMEN AND CHILDREN
February 9, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen The trafficking of persons especially young girls is a worldwide multi-billion dollar business that exploits several million young girls and some boys; many are under-age, sold as sex slaves into the bars and brothels of South-east Asia. Others are picked up by middle-aged paedophiles and used as live-in sex partners to […]
Read More...CHEMICALS IN OUR FOOD ARE KILLING US
January 28, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen If you love to live then you can live to love: your family, friends, neighbors, the poor and this wonderful (wounded) world and unspoiled universe. But you need to eat clean, unadulterated, purely non-processed food. That’s a mouthful of words but I write them with a conviction since I have witnessed […]
Read More...SAVING THE CHILDREN FROM DRUGS, POVERTY, AND PROSTITUTION
January 18, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen When I first came to the beautiful Philippines as a missionary in 1969, I got to know and love the friendly, kind, Filipino people and I knew I would be happy here. But Missionary life is full of challenges and taking a stand for the downtrodden and the oppressed and fighting for […]
Read More...CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING OUR WAY OF LIFE
January 10, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Ferocious storms, tornados, incessant rains, floods, bitterly cold winters and drought-ridden summers are the extreme weather conditions that are being experienced all over the world. Climate change is upon us, we can feel it. New York was devastated by hurricane “Sandy”. In Tasmania, Australia, drought and forest fires, the worst in […]
Read More...THE TIPPING POINT THAT HAS BEEN REACHED
January 4, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen There are certain tipping points in history that caused global upheaval and social unrest and political change. A tipping point is when a situation generates so much pressure of human emotion, anger and frustration, it causes an irreversible social reaction that affects a nation, a region or the human race and […]
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