While many good and dedicated bishops and priests in the Philippines and elsewhere are examining their conscience about their responsibility to bring pedophile clergymen to justice, many more are not. In the past, Pope Francis — who remains hospitalized — has strongly spoken out on the urgent need to cleanse the
March 6, 2025
All of us want to live in a just society where cheating, exploitation and corruption have no place. Almost everyone wants a society that respects the values of the Gospel, and where all are treated equally with respect and dignity and people help each other like Good Samaritans. This is the
February 20, 2025
There are dozens of ways that people can choose to be followers and believers of Jesus of Nazareth. Going to church and praying is good and right and can be a powerful spiritual experience. However, Jesus wants us to imitate him. Not all understand what Jesus himself wanted his followers to
January 16, 2025
Most people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know him as the child of poor parents born in a manger in Bethlehem, in what’s now
December 12, 2024
But there are many good, honest judges and brave, dedicated prosecutors working to attain justice for child victims. At the Preda Foundation’s therapeutic home in Zambales, the abused children are healed and empowered to fight for justice and file criminal complaints against their rapists and abusers. They bravely testify against them,
December 9, 2024
DURING the Senate’s plenary debates on the 2025 General Appropriations Act, Sen. Grace Poe said there were 900,000 court cases left unresolved and undecided for many years. It was an astounding revelation. The complainants are waiting for justice to be served. “Justice delayed is justice denied” is a sign hanging in
December 5, 2024
This is a story of the success and victory of Girly, a 15-year-old child that achieved justice by her clear testimony and won her case against her aunt that sold her to a foreign sex tourist to be raped. Last Tuesday, July 30, Judge Dorina S. Castro-Baltazar of the Family Court
August 6, 2024
By Fr. Shay Cullen The shocking testimonies of 2,300 victim-survivors of childhood physical, psychological and sexual abuse representing 200,000 children that suffered in government care centers and church orphanages and institutions over the past 70 years have just been released in a New Zealand report that took six years to compile. The investigative report, Abuse
July 30, 2024
By Fr. Shay Cullen This is the story of the rescue, recovery and empowerment of an eight-year-old child, Angelica, from Orani, Bataan. She was abandoned by her father and then cruelly physically and psychologically abused by her mother and step-father Glen Rivera. They beat her with a bamboo stick and constantly cursed her and pinched
July 23, 2024
The “March for the Martyrs” was a spectacular event when thousands of marching Catholic students filled Taft Avenue in Manila carrying banners and placards, singing fervently the patriotic song Ang Bayan, and demanding justice for students killed by the anti-riot police of President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. when they staged a demonstration
July 16, 2024
Publishing the truth, revealing war crimes, atrocities, murders, and crimes against women and children and rights advocates are part of the onerous and sometimes dangerous work and duty of media people such as writers, journalists, publishers, editors, photographers. Many journalists are courageous, fearless and pay the ultimate price for revealing the
July 2, 2024
Millions of good, peace-loving people around the world are working to bring a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. These include Israelis, too, but they are failing to persuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or the leaders of Hamas to agree to a permanent ceasefire. Israel is determined to
June 25, 2024