Fr. Shay’s Articles
Changing the Face of Loneliness
April 13, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
It was a happy day last week for 31 children and one adult suffering from cleft palate and cleft lip, when the expert surgical team of volunteer doctors with the Philippine Band of Mercy completed a marathon stretch of facial reconstruction operations at the San Marcelino hospital…
Read More...Can We Believe and Achieve the Resurrection?
April 4, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Christians have celebrated the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, we have recalled the dramatic events in that life of one who brought into the world the unconditional, self- sacrificing love that makes us so human and so divine. When we love others like the Good Samaritan, generous, self-giving to a stranger, to […]
Read More...Helping Others is Our Path to Happiness
March 29, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What brings out the crowds to cheer on a hero, a liberator, a Messiah like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the greatest of all, Jesus of Nazareth, and many more. All but one of the above was executed or assassinated and all were brutalized and jailed unjustly for their beliefs and mission. […]
Read More...How We Help End Hunger
March 23, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Hiking through the Zambales hills visiting the villages of the Aeta indigenous people is an exhilarating and yet saddening experience. I have been thinking about my recent visits to the villages of the aboriginal people that first settled the Philippine islands and survived…
Read More...Operation for Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
March 20, 2012 · By Preda
The first time I saw a child with a hole in her face was long ago in 1972 . I was assigned as assistant parish Priest in San Marcelino, Zambales I brought the parish religious teachers to the rural school. While waiting outside I rounded a corner and there I was face to face with […]
Read More...THE MANGOS THAT SAVED A VILLAGE
March 16, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
As I walked the last few meters with a medical team organized by the Preda Fair Trade Development Foundation to the hillside village, high in the Zambales Mountains, I was not greeted with the usual rush of excited smiling children curious at the arrival of visitors from the lowland. The Preda team entered a village […]
Read More...Who Coddled The Toxic Terror?
March 9, 2012 ·
The protection, preservation and nurturing of life is more than just an act of survival based on instinct as it is with the animal kingdom. For human persons it is a rational balancing of alternatives as to what action is best to take in any given situation. The fact we have free will to choose […]
Read More...Clerical Abuse of Children Must Be Rooted Out
March 1, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The conference recently held at the Vatican’s Gregorian University brought together cardinals, bishops, priests from over 100 countries and the heads of thirty-three religious orders to tackle the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests.
Read More...Church and People Call For a New Mining Law
February 23, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Bishops, priests, pastors, people from all walks of life and non-government organizations have taken a stand against the unfair, exploitative and damaging mining operations in this country. It is an important moral issue because for generations 75% of the people have endured a life of poverty and want, exploitation and injustice.
Read More...Paradise Lost to Destructive Mining
February 16, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
President Aquino plans to issue a historical Executive Order (EO) to regulate the mining industry to protect the environment and the rights of the people. A strict order is needed and hopefully, it will levy at least a 20% tax on mining profits.
Read More...
