GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno, gdumat-ol@guampdn.com June 16, 2016
The whistleblower group Concerned Catholics of Guam is officially no longer a “prohibited society” in the eyes of the Guam Catholic church’s leadership.
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana, issued a decree Thursday rescinding Archbishop Anthony Apuron’s June 5 decree banning Concerned Catholics and its supporters from local churches.
Apuron issued the decree shortly before the Vatican clipped his administrative powers at the archdiocese in light of mounting allegations he sexually abused minor altar boys when he was a priest at a parish in Agat decades ago. Apuron hasn’t been charged with any crime.
Apuron’s ban on Concerned Catholics was supposed to go into effect June 14, but the archdiocesan leadership under Hon placed it under review.
Hon stated in his June 16 decree he rescinded and annulled Apuron’s decree “after seven days of consultation and reflection, with deep concern for the best interests of the Archdiocese of Agana, particularly for the promotion of reconciliation and deeper communion of all members of this particular church.”
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