GUAM
KUAM
by Jolene Toves
Guam – No apology, no retraction, but one thing Father Paul Gofigan did get was a meeting with Archbishop Anthony Apuron.
“It was just a meeting where he asked me to cool it down especially with the media and I really thought that I was going to get the letter with my request regarding the manila event with the slanderous remarks but I didn’t we didn’t get anywhere with that,” said the priest.
As we reported Father Paul Gofigan has been contemplating taking legal action against Archbishop Apuron for allegedly making slanderous and defamatory statements about him and another man. According to Father Gofigan the archbishop during a recent retreat to the Philippines for the clergy allegedly made statements suggesting he was having a homosexual relationship with a married man. Father Gofigan gave the archbishop until Tuesday at noon to put in writing a retraction of those statements the deadline however came and went.
He said, “I thought I was going to get a written letter of apology which I didn’t receive he apologize very very much in general but that was about it – it wasn’t really a meeting it was a very short meeting.”
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