GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | Post News Staff
In a statement released to the media on Aug. 25, Archbishop Anthony Apuron responded to claims that he opposed the Pope.
“I wish to declare that this is absolutely false and it is causing real, grave and immediate damage to the Church in Guam and to my good name,” Apuron said in the release.
Apuron said he had always followed the Pope and has every intention of doing so in the future.
The disobedience in question refers to comments made by Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana, in a statement concerning a presentation made to the Presbyteral Council regarding the legal status of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary (RMS) property in Yona.
Hon said, “In truth, more than a year ago, the Holy See recognized the problems such a Deed Restriction created. Ever since then, more than once, the Holy See has instructed Archbishop Anthony Apuron to rescind and annul it. Clearly this instruction has not been carried out accordingly.”
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