GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | Post News Staff
In a statement read at Catholic Masses throughout Guam yesterday, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana, urged Gov. Eddie Calvo to veto Bill 326, now on the governor’s desk, that would remove the statute of limitations on civil suits involving accusations of child sex abuse.
“Putting the house in order without burning it down” was the title of the address read by clergy at all Masses.
Hon, who is in Rome, said he is urging the Holy See to remove Archbishop Anthony Apuron as Archbishop of Agana and to appoint a successor.
“I can assure you that the gravely serious allegations against Archbishop Apuron will continue to be dealt with by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which will hold a canonical trial,” he said in the release.
Since mid-May, there have been five specific accusations of sex abuse against Apuron involving altar boys in the 1960s and 1970s.
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