GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Jasmine Stole | Post News Staff
Former Sen. Bob Klitzkie is calling on the Department of Land Management to look into what he suspects are deliberately doctored government documents that the Archdiocese of Agana printed in the Nov. 29, 2015 issue of the U’Matuna Si Yu’os.
The U’Matuna Si Yu’os printed a copy of a certificate of title on the front page of the paper. In the article, approved by the Monsignor David Quitugua, vicar general, Quitugua said the certificates established that the archdiocese, by Archbishop Anthony Apuron, “maintains legal ownership of the seminary property and it is only the archdiocese through the mechanisms of Canon Law that will determine the transferor conveyance of this property.”
The property in question is that on which sits the Redemptoris Mater Seminary of Guam in Yona. At issue is the legal ownership of the property. Critics, like Klitzkie, refute the archdiocese’s claims that the property is under the control of Apuron and the archdiocese.
The church printed the certificate of title retrieved from DLM records on Oct. 30, 2015, and the accompanying article, under the headline “Ownership of Seminary property confirmed.”
About a month after the article was published, in a December letter to DLM Director Michael Borja, Klitzkie wrote that four certificates of title are “clearly erroneous on their face.”
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