GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
Neil Pang | The Guam Daily Post Jul 13, 2017
Forty-one properties owned by the Archdiocese of Agana have been deemed “non-essential” and will be the first to be liquidated if and when additional money is needed for settlement negotiations with litigants in the pending clergy sex abuse cases against the church.
Archdiocesan Finance Council President Richard Untalan told media during the third press conference held this week that “thousands of man-hours” went into compiling a list of all church properties.
The finance council provided media with two lists of properties marked “essential” and “non-essential.”
“The Guam Catholic Church essential properties is defined as such: the church buildings and the surrounding grounds, the schools and the surrounding grounds, Kamalin Karidat, Catholic Social Service and surrounding grounds and four leasehold properties that we consider essential to maintaining the operation of the chancery and this archdiocese,” Untalan said. “Everything else falls under non-essential.”
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