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by Jolene Toves
Guam – His blog has been known to create quite the uproar within the Catholic community, and with the recent visit from a Vatican official, Tim Rohr isn’t holding back.
Rohr is the main person behind the Junglewatch website a blog focusing on the dealings within the local Catholic community. For many who’ve visited the site he’s brought up strong criticism of Archbishop Anthony Apuron, from his connection to the Neocatechumenal way to last year’s controversial removal of Father Paul Gofigan, the long time pastor at Santa Barbara Church in Dededo.
Over the last couple of day the Archdiocese of Hagatna has been hosting the Vatican’s delegate Archbishop Martin Krebs. Krebs has been holding closed door meetings with local clergy.
According to Rohr however he’s learned those meetings, in particular, one that included Archbishop Apuron got a little heated. Rorh says while the meeting was supposed to focus on concerns of local priests, the archbishop allegedly used 15 minutes of the time to go over Diocesan financials. It was Monsignor David Quitigua, Rohr says spoke up and reminded them what they really were there for.
“There’s just a lot of serious frustration anger that’s pent up for many years because for many years the priest have tried many things that they could do to work things out try to get some harmony going some unity and it all just seems to fall by the way side after they had their meetings and they come up with their action plans,” he said.
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