GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News June 9, 2016
Archbishop Hon to lead prayer meeting as vigil planned in Agat
The archbishop appointed by the Vatican to temporarily oversee the Catholic church in Guam now is on island and is expected to remain here while accusations of sexual abuse against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron are being investigated, according to the church.
Pope Francis on Monday gave Archbishop Savio Tai Fai Hon temporary authority to govern the Archdiocese of Agana, but Apuron remains the island’s archbishop.
In a statement Wednesday, Hon said the priority of the apostolic administrator is to “take stock of the present pastoral situation of the diocese; to identify the difficulties present among the clergy, religious, and lay faithful and to take urgent measures, at the earliest, in order to promote and restore unity and harmony in the local church.”
“The Apostolic Administrator, after carefully discerning the needs of the Archdiocese will take all necessary decisions to assure that this goal is being implemented,” the statement adds. …
Hon is scheduled to lead a prayer meeting 4 p.m. Thursday at Saint Anthony and Saint Victor Church in Tamuning, church pastor Monsignor Brigido Arroyo said Wednesday.
“It is open to everyone — priests, deacons, religious leaders, lay people. It is a prayer meeting,” Arroyo said.
A prayer vigil also is scheduled for noon Thursday, at the old rectory of Agat Catholic church, where the alleged sexual abuses by Apuron happened in the 1970s.
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