GUAM
KUAM
[with video]
Updated: Aug 18, 2016
By Krystal Paco
Guam’s interim apostolic administrator, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, may be away from the island to cater to other business, but that’s not stopping him from speaking out on the highly-controversial ownership of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Yona. In a release, Archbishop Hon says critics of the deed were right all along.
“The Archdiocese of Agana owns that property. No doubt of it. And then there’s a certain ambiguity who has the right to use it. And on this matter, I’m going to have a review of it,” said Archbishop Hon during an interview on KUAM just last month that had several people calling out the apostolic administrator. Concerned about his comment and all issues related to the Redemportis Mater Seminary has been former senator and concerned Catholic Bob Klitzkie.
“He’s finally told the truth about who owns the seminary. That’s certainly good news,” said Klitzkie.
Late this afternoon Archbishop Hon rescinded and annulled the November 2011 declaration of deed restriction related to the Redemptoris Mater Seminary. In a press release Archbishop Hon even made mention that the Holy See instructed Archbishop Anthony Apuron to rescind and annul it over a year ago, writing, “Clearly, this instruction has not been carried out accordingly.”
It’s interesting that the Vatican had been telling [Archbishop Anthony] Apuron for a year to get that property, to cause the property to be conveyed back to the archdiocese. And he didn’t do it. So you have to wonder: where the real power is here? Is it the Vatican or is it the Gennarinis in New Jersey? Is it the Neocatechumenal Way? Archbishop Hon has talked a lot about obedience since he got here. That’s some pretty gross disobedience, and I wonder what consequences there will be for those who were so disobedient,” Klitzkie stated.
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