A day in the life of Guam’s archbishop

GUAM
Pacific Daily News

November 12, 2017

By Haidee V Eugenio

A more in-depth look into the life of Archbishop Michael Byrnes from his interview with Pacific Daily News reporter Haidee Eugenio on Oct. 27, 2017.

A year since stepping into a fractured community of faith, Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes continues to work on bringing people back to church pews with stronger faith than they had before.

There’s still brokenness but everything can be overcome, he said.

“I think we’ve begun,” Byrnes said about fixing that brokenness of the soul, given the betrayal of trust by spiritual leaders, based on more than 140 clergy sex abuse lawsuits filed against priests and others associated with the Catholic Church.

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