GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno, gdumat-ol@guampdn.com June 13, 2016
Guam’s Catholic church leadership is now reconsidering whether the “Concerned Catholics of Guam” is a prohibited group, as stated earlier this month in a decree by Archbishop Anthony Apuron.
The interim leadership at the Archdiocese of Agana has removed from its website Apuron’s June 5th decree banning the Concerned Catholics of Guam and forbidding island Catholics from associating with the whistleblower group.
That decree has been placed under review, according to a statement released Monday from Father Tadeusz Jan Nowak, who is assisting Archbishop Savio Tai Fai Hon in the temporary administration of the Archdiocese of Agana, while Apuron is on leave.
Apuron stated his decree would take effect on June 14, but the archdiocesan leadership has placed it under review.
Apuron issued the decree on June 5, the eve of the Vatican’s announcement that Apuron’s administrative authority has been suspended following recent public accusations that he sexually abused young altar boys when he was a parish priest in Agat village.
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