GUAM
Radio New Zealand
Guam’s Catholic Church has apologised to victims of a former priest who told local media on Thursday that it was “possible” that he abused altar boys there in the 1950s.
On Monday, Leo Tudela, 73, told senators that Father Brouillard and two other church members sexually abused him when he was an altar boy in Guam starting in 1956. He was speaking at a public hearing on a bill that would lift a statute of limitations that prevents lawsuits being filed for historical abuses.
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai issued the statement of apology after Father Louis Brouillard, 95, told the media he regrets the abuses and was seeking forgiveness from his victims.
“With the news that Father Louis Brouillard, a priest who served on Guam confessed to having abused altar boys on Guam in the 1950s, I convey my deepest apologies and that of the entire Church to Leo Tudela and all other persons who were also victimised,” Archbishop Hon said.
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