MP Podcast — 20

Authorities in the Philippines cage homeless children, in preparation for the Pope’s arrival.
A teacher is arrested for showing “ABC’s of Death” (2012) in class.
Glee star, Naya Rivera, states that showering “is a White people thing.”

“Disregarding their own Filipino child protection laws, the locked-up children are placed in filthy detention centers, where they sleep on the cold concrete floors, use buckets as toilets, get physically abused by older inmates, are nearly starved and in some cases, chained up to the pillars.
Adult inmates are kept in a pen directly next to the cell holding boys and girls; they freely pass back and forth through the compounds during certain times of the day and abuse the children.
The center is hidden away in the slums of Manila’s Paranaque district, and ironically named ‘House of Hope.'”
  ― Abigail James (Catholic Online)
“Sheila Kearns showed the film, ‘The ABCs of Death,&