GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | Post News Staff
Since holding his first press conference last week, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana, has been meeting with local media outlets to address concerns of the public. In recent months, the Catholic Church has come under scrutiny for its failure to address child sexual abuse allegations that surfaced earlier this year.
Starting in mid-May, four people – Roy Quintanilla, Walter Denton, Roland Sondia and Doris Concepcion – have made allegations of sexual molestation of altar boys by Archbishop Anthony Apuron when he was a parish priest altar boy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Agat in the 1970s.
Hon arrived in Guam in early June to serve as the apostolic administrator for the island in the place of Apuron who had been put on leave by Pope Francis on June 6.
Apuron’s whereabouts are unknown and Hon reaffirmed his lack of information regarding Apuron. “He (Apuron) is on leave so he has free reign to travel where he wants,” Hon told the Post. Hon dispelled any reports that Apuron is on island.
Hon reiterated that the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith was the Vatican authority responsible for investigating matters of alleged child sex abuse against members of the clergy.
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