GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, heugenio@guampdn.com June 15, 2017
Concerned Catholics of Guam said the Archdiocese of Agana should be rid of five priests or ministerial officers who allegedly abused their power. Some of them destroyed chancery records to hide clergy sex abuse cases, the group alleges.
“They, in fact, should be put through a canonical trial for the destruction of chancery records, the lies and deceit that caused tremendous scandal among the Catholic faithful on Guam,” Concerned Catholics President David Sablan said Tuesday.
Sablan was reacting to Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes’ recent expansion of the membership of the Presbyteral Council and retaining Monsignor David C. Quitugua.
As of Thursday, the Archdiocese of Agana hadn’t replied to a request for comment.
The consultative body, which has Byrnes as president, advises the archbishop on pastoral concerns and other matters of importance.
Byrnes also recently appointed members to the College of Consultors, a governing body when the archdiocese becomes impeded or vacant. Quitugua is a member of the college.
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