GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com December 7, 2016
As a gesture of good faith and welcome, Catholics who have been picketing weekly in front of the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña shortened their picketing this weekend so they could attend Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes’ first Sunday Mass on Dec. 4.
Byrnes arrived on Guam on Nov. 28, or about a month after Pope Francis appointed him on Oct. 31 to succeed Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron should Apuron retire, resign or be removed. Apuron, 71, is undergoing a canonical trial at the Vatican following multiple sex abuse allegations.
“We want to assure you that our picketing is not directed at you and what you have accomplished,” Concerned Catholics of Guam President David J. Sablan and Laity Forward Movement founding President Lou Klitzkie said in a joint letter to Byrnes on Sunday, Dec. 4.
Picketers continue to call for Apuron’s removal as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Agana and his laicization. Klitzkie and Sablan said they will remain vigilant.
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