GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | Post News Staff
As the weekly protests by Catholic activists continued yesterday outside the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica, leadership of the respective lay organizations said they are preparing to take legal action in order to return control of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary property in Yona to the Archdiocese of Agana.
Beyond the recent allegations of child sexual abuse leveled against Archbishop Anthony Apuron in May, the return of the seminary has been a central point of contention for the past couple of years.
David Sablan, president of Concerned Catholics of Guam, said a five-year window in which a complaint can be filed with the Superior Court of Guam to contest the declaration of deed restriction will close on Nov. 21. According to Sablan, there is a five-year statute of limitations on filing such complaints with the Superior Court of Guam.
“The statute of limitations on filing a complaint in Superior Court to have the Yona property returned to the patrimony of the Church will expire on 21 Nov. 2016,” Sablan said. “We have five years from the date the Declaration of Deed Restriction was filed with the Department of Land Management on 22 Nov. 2011 to file a complaint in Superior Court to get the property back, and rightfully keep it as an asset of the Archdiocese of Agana.”
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