Catholic group plans to stake out seminary, conduct head count

GUAM
Pacific Daily News

Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com Aug. 28, 2017

Some island Catholics plan to spend days counting the number of people going in and out of the Neocatechumenal Way-controlled Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Yona.

The results of the head count, which the Concerned Catholics of Guam calls “Occupy RMS,” will be presented to the Yona property owner, the Archdiocese of Agana.

Concerned Catholics will formally ask the archdiocese to charge the seminary residents rent for the use of the church property.

Group President David Sablan said it’s unfair that Guam’s 14 Catholic schools and their students are made to pay for some $2.64 million in church debts, while the Neocatechumenal Way gets free rent at the archdiocese’s expense.

“As we previously stated, these RMS residents are freeloaders, but Catholic school students and parents are being assessed fees to help the archdiocese pay church debts,” Sablan said.

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