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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Commentary

A secret crime that mutates and spreads, 2

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN  WITH THE exceptions, most families, citizens, government officials, and agency heads including many bishops in the Philippines and other churches have...

A secret crime that mutates and spreads, 1

THE CORONAVIRUS is a perfect simile for the crimes of child sexual abuse. Child abuse is a secret crime hardly ever seen or detected....

Is there hope for survival?

THERE are now 702 million people living in extreme poverty, barely surviving on a dollar a day and millions more in “normal” poverty eating...

Power that exploits

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN  TODAY we have political power structures that are waging wars and exploiting the poor and the earth. The super-rich and their...

PH as biodiversity hotspot

THE GOVERNMENT reports that the Philippines is losing approximately 47,000 hectares of forest cover every year. In 2003, the country’s forests comprised 7.2 million...

Crime against children, 2

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN  THE PHILIPPINES is the hub of this heinous on-line crime against children. The moral corruption in government and society that tolerates...

Crime against children, 1

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN  IN A GROUP of children as young as six to 16, in every three or four, one will have suffered an...

When the prophetic voice of Father Picx spoke out, 2

THERE WAS HOPE. There were the brave voices of the prophets of peace and among the few there was the persistent voice and protest...

When the prophetic voice of Father Picx spoke out, 1

THE FILIPINO people and especially the Christian churches have to take a truthful examination of conscience when faced with the shocking truth that at...

Blessed to exist, 2

BY FR. SHAY CULLEN  IF HUMANS continue to destroy the forests and all the creatures living in them, then the people will have destroyed their own sources...