GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio , heugenio@guampdn.com December 3, 2016
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai said Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron had more than a year, from early 2015, to prove to the Vatican he could improve his weak pastoral governance and unify the Catholic Church on Guam.
But Apuron failed to heed the calls, and the subsequent public allegations that Apuron sexually abused Agat altar boys in the 1970s made matters worse for him, Hon said.
Concerns about Apuron’s pastoral governance included his failure to constantly communicate with the Vatican and his own archdiocesan priests, and playing favoritism toward one group, Hon said.
Apuron’s health problems and actions, including calling his sex abuse accusers in 2014 and 2016 liars and threatening to sue them, gave the Vatican more reasons to find a successor for him as early as 2015.
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