Olongapo Teacher Ordered Dismissed from Service for Sexual Abuse Francis B. Bermido Jr. October 19, 2021 Franco N. Aranas, a teacher of New Cabalan High School, Olongapo City has been found guilty of grave misconduct for sexually abusing three male minors and is ordered dismissed from service by the Regional Director of the Department of Education. In her Decision dated October 7, 2021 Director May B. Eclar of the Department of Education said Franco Aranas “miserably fell short of the standards expected of him as an e ...Continue Reading

THE GREATEST STORM By Fr. Shay Cullen The rains would not stop even after the winds had died down. Rachel was terrified for her children and herself. Juanito, her husband had gone looking for food. The typhoon blew wild and wickedly across the Philippines leaving behind rising flood waters, mangled huts and shacks, and toppled mango trees. Even sturdy coconut trees had crashed to the ground, defiant yet overwhelmed by a force never before encountered. Rachel, alone in her small, one-roomed bamboo and grass-roofed sh ...Continue Reading

Good Day! A friend of yours had forwarded your e-mail address to us. Yours, Fr. Shay Cullen A Mission in Life Fr. Shay Cullen We have to have a mission in life, to make it meaningful,with purpose and to live more fully.The mission can be to accomplish any good work,motivated by a spiritual value of compassion, love of justice, care of others,empathy and solidarity with the sick, the oppressed and lonely. These inner convictions and commitments can be the driving force of mission. It can be caring for our family, h ...Continue Reading