GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | The Guam Daily Post
“The next phase, which will happen sometime in the next several weeks, will be a convening of the three judges to deliberate on what they heard.”
– Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Byrnes
A panel of Vatican judges will soon begin deliberating the fate of suspended Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who is facing accusations of child sex abuse when he was a Guam priest decades ago.
Apuron’s ongoing canonical trial in the Vatican is in its penultimate phase, Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Byrnes said during a press conference yesterday.
“I have been notified, in the past couple of weeks, by the notary of the tribunal (confirming) that the discovery period of the trial (has) ended and the next phase, which will happen sometime in the next several weeks, will be a convening of the three judges to deliberate on what they heard,” Byrnes said.
After the Vatican judges deliberate, Byrnes said, they will publish the decision, which will include what he called “the point of the trial” in addition to the verdict.
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