GUAM
Pacific Daily News
Last week, Coadjutor Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes signed back the title of the Yona seminary to the Archdiocese of Agana.
We support this move. After years of division and pain in the church on Guam, this decision provides clarity for the church community and the opportunity to move forward and heal.
In 2002, the archdiocese used a $1.9 million loan to purchase the former 100-room Accion Hotel in Yona. The Carmelite nuns donated $2 million to pay off the loan, giving the archdiocese full title to the property, the building and its contents.
The seminary was “specifically designed to form presbyters for the ‘New Evangelization’ as understood by the Neocatechumenal Way,” according to a report issued in September by the archdiocese.
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