Fr. Shay’s Articles
A Sustainable Life of Dignity, Rio+20
June 21, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
My faith is greatly challenged when I look upon the earth and the ongoing destruction of the beautiful valleys, hills, rivers and forests. Does the Lord of the Universe allow the ravages of mining, river pollution, reckless forest destruction, the depletion of marine life and destructive greed?
Read More...The Greatest Freedom
June 15, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Independence Day celebrates political and economic freedom from the domination and exploitation of foreign powers and the establishment of a sovereign nation. It ought to be the freedom to build a country filled with patriotic fervor that cherishes its independence and sovereignty.
Read More...More fun in the Philippines?
June 7, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Sex tourism is a world wide reality and those who deny it are living far from reality. In the Philippines an estimated 60,000 commercially sexually exploited children are suffering abuse and lost childhoods according to a UNICEF estimate and millions more worldwide. There are stringent laws against it that are not being enforced.
Read More...The Time of Transparency
June 2, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The conviction of the Philippine Chief Justice Corona for dishonesty having failed to tell the truth in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) as required of every public official by law is a serious event in the history of the Philippines.
Read More...Why Blame Children for Adult Crime?
May 25, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What level of callous cruelty does it take to put children as young as six or twelve-year-old behind bars? That is the way it was in the Philippines until the passing of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Bill (RA 9344) in 2006.
Read More...Fair Trade – Protecting Human Rights
May 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Dublin, Ireland – Juanito Hacinto is a poor man in Bataan, Philippines. He is a member of the Aeta indigenous people. He sat with his wife Nita, and their three children under a mango tree to hear our message that the Preda Fair Trade organisation, Profairtrade, will pay 100% higher for their mango fruit so […]
Read More...A Victory Just and Right
May 10, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
It was a blistering hot day in November 2009 when I went to the protest picket line outside the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).There were about forty people on hunger strike in tents led by father Edwin Gariguez. He is a servant-leader dedicated to empowering the Mangyan indigenous people of Mindoro, to […]
Read More...The Hunger for Justice
May 2, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
There is a great hunger in the world. It is a hunger for justice. There is a famine of justice and they who hunger and thirst for it are rarely satisfied. But on 26 April, 2012, a historical landmark judgment at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the De Hague, The Netherlands, handed down a […]
Read More...Earth Day with the Indigenous People
April 25, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
How I admire the resilience and survival skills of the rural impoverished Filipino. It’s something to be celebrated and admired but the fact that millions of rural poor, especially many of the indigenous people, live at subsistence level is a cause for great concern, especially…
Read More...The Walk to Freedom and Dignity
April 19, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The day he walked to freedom was a happy day in the life of fourteen-year-old Miguel. For months he had been detained in the Parañaque jail, accused of stealing a pair of flip-flops, worth no more than 50 cents. He was, at first locked in an overcrowded cell that was a living hell of squashed […]
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