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Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News July 5, 2016
Archbishop Hon talks of progress in local Church
The Rev. Jeffrey San Nicolas said the archdiocese is “studying the matter seriously,” referring to a libel and slander lawsuit filed Friday by four people who publicly accused Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of sexually abusing altar boys in the 1970s.
San Nicolas was appointed delegate of the administrator, assuming responsibilities similar to those of the vicar general and moderator of the Curia, on June 30, a day before the lawsuit was filed.
Apuron and other archdiocese representatives previously threatened to sue accusers and others for allegedly spreading malicious and calumnious lies against the archbishop and the Archdiocese of Agana.
The plaintiffs — Doris Y. Concepcion, Roy T. Quintanilla, Walter G. Denton and Roland Paul L. Sondia — said they filed the lawsuit against Apuron, the archdiocese and up to 50 other unnamed defendants for calling them liars and for accusing them of “instilling hatred, ignorance and violence in the people” after the plaintiffs publicly accused Apuron of molesting altar boys when he was parish priest at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Agat.
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