GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Today’s protest is expected to be the last.
For 54 Sundays, some of Guam’s Catholics went to church, and also joined the protest march at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica, to demand the complete removal of disgraced Archbishop Anthony Apuron from the Catholic Church of Guam.
Apuron stands accused of sexually abusing certain former altar boys under his care and is undergoing a trial before the Vatican justice system. Cases have also been filed against him in civil courts in Guam.
This Sunday will be the last of the Catholic protesters’ demonstrations because participants have seen enough progress in the local Catholic church leadership’s efforts to clean house, and in the sincerity of its efforts, according to the sentiment voiced at a recent meeting among members of the Concerned Catholics of Guam and other lay Catholics on the island.
The organization has been instrumental in calling attention to the problems with the local Catholic church, starting with a call for financial transparency and later for the ouster of Apuron, as he faced mounting sex-abuse allegations from formerly underage boys who were under his care as a priest decades ago.
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