Fr. Shay’s Articles
Nuclear and Coal Plants Are Environmental Disasters
June 1, 2011 ·
Governments continue to create fear with warnings of possible terrorist attacks by bombs and shootings and the possibility of terrorists using stolen nuclear waste material as a Dirty Bomb.
Read More...The Priest as a Prophet (Full Version)
May 6, 2011 · By Father Shay Cullen
Father Niall O’Brien, 64, a good friend, a brave and courageous priest of unquestionable integrity died last 27th of April in Pisa, Italy, after a long struggle with illness. He was an extraordinary Columban Missionary living out his commitment to the poor in the Philippines for the past forty years. An ardent advocate of active […]
Read More...How I was Saved from the Davao Death Squad
May 6, 2011 · By Father Shay Cullen
There have been many concerned people from around the world who expressed their anguish, shock, and are deeply angry at the injustice committed against the children and youth of Davao city and elsewhere that has been revealed by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The courageous chairperson of the commission, Leila De Lima, who […]
Read More...Death Squads Scared Me Too
May 6, 2011 · By Father Shay Cullen, (republishing, copying, no restrictions)
The energetic and outspoken Philippine Commissioner on Human Rights Leila De Lima is a breath of fresh air in a putrid stench-filled atmosphere where the silence of consent by a majority of citizens has allowed the execution of as many as 814 people including 73 children who are hapless innocent victims of the Davao Death […]
Read More...Moguls should learn to mine their own business
May 2, 2011 ·
Bishops, priests, environmental defenders, indigenous people and the common Filipino have one thing in common and that is a love of their once beautiful land and the environment. When they are told that there is a bonanza of wealth that could make them all rich, they laugh. It’s all lies, just stories of greedy speculators […]
Read More...Happiness, the Measure of a Good Life
April 27, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Happiness, for one nation at least, is the measure by which they want to judge themselves to be well governed, developed and successful. The measuring stick of the people of Bhutan, a small impoverished kingdom in the Himalayas is Gross National Happiness (or GNH) rather than Gross Domestic Product (or GDP). Simply put, spiritual well-being […]
Read More...Heroic Valentines
February 2, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
It was a cruel and vicious Roman Emperor Claudius II, as legend has it, who jailed and executed saint and martyr Valentine in 269 AD. He was a young priest who stood for his belief in Christian marriage and performed secret weddings against the orders of the emperor who wanted many more unmarried men in […]
Read More...The Suffering of Children
January 26, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Saving and protecting children from abusers, pimps, pedophiles, and traffickers, be they parents or corrupt business people, is the work that goes on everyday here at the Preda Children’s Home. New cases, seemingly one worse than the other, arrive every few days. The child care team and the legal team help them cope up with […]
Read More...The Trafficking of Children
January 19, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The great challenge that the Aquino government has inherited and is trying to confront is the proliferation of sexual violence against children and the shocking trade in human persons in the Philippines. Most of the trafficking is internal to the Philippines. Thousands of women and children are taken from the remote impoverished rural regions. The […]
Read More...The Values We Live For
January 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
While you might believe that the world is mired in a hopeless, all powerful culture of greed and selfish pleasure, take heart and inspiration from the thousands of people who risk their lives daily in the unselfish and heroic service of the oppressed and endangered people of the developing world. Last week Columban Missionaries Father […]
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