A Columban missionary has drawn attention to the scandal of the Philippines’ street children As Pope Francis left the Philippines, there were harsh words for the local Church and the Government from an Irish missionary. Fr Shay Cullen, who has spent more than 40 years campaigning against child abuse and trafficking, criticised the Filipino Church for fostering a Catholicism that is “all faith but no action”, singling out the plight of more than 20,000 street children, some as young as five, who have been subjected to sexual abuse and gross human-rights violations in detention centres. “What is the Catholic Church doing about these?” he asked. “Catholicism in this country is all faith but no action. St James said that kind of faith is dead – we ar