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The power of the internet for good and bad

Father Shay Cullen -
An estimated 500,000 Filipino children — or about one in 100 in the country — were trafficked to produce new child sexual exploitation material

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If obedience to authorities is important today, it first means to listen — for us to listen to the superiors and for the superiors to listen to us

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