In our last
post on this story, we spoke of the Neocat "bigwigs" visiting an ill Archbishop Apuron effectively ordering him to turn over the seminary property before he kicks the bucket, so they, as sole owners, can do an "in your face" to the people of Guam and any new bishop that came along who didn't like them.
Actually when I first heard about this, I felt sorry for the Archbishop. These people have used him from the beginning, and here he is on what might have been his death bed, and like impetuous, spoiled, self-absorbed children, they show up and demand they be given the house or the car or whatever they can get their greedy hands on before their other brothers and sisters get to their dying father.
Most people think that it's Fr. Pius who calls the shots and the Archbishop is his puppet. But that's a myth. Both Pius and the Archbishop take their orders from a higher power, the "bigwigs", a married couple who lives in New Jersey. They are the "responsibles" for the Neocatechumenal Way for the whole United States, and they answer directly to Kiko.
They are also two of the four "Guarantors" of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary. And in the articles of incorporation of RMS, they have assigned themselves veto and approval power over all decisions relative to the administration, direction, and fate of RMS.
RMS may be incorporated as a "corporation sole" under Archbishop Apuron, but by contrast, the rest of the archdiocese has no guarantors who have veto and approval power over the archbishop's decisions. The only body that even approaches such power in normal archdiocesan affairs is the finance council, and that is only in regards to financial decisions as prescribed and limited by Canon law.
There are four guarantors: the Archbishop, this couple, and an NCW priest who is not from Guam nor does he reside here. Thus we have the archdiocese's largest financial asset, a property estimated by the archbishop's own legal counsel to be worth at least $75,000,000, 75% controlled or close to being controlled, by foreigners, strangers! And what's more, they are the hardest of the hard core neocats AND Kiko's immediate lieutenants.
I am told that the legal counsel, a man who has spent most of his professional life assisting this archdiocese and specifically this archbishop, and who was the chief engineer in acquiring the seminary property in the first place, objected to the inclusion of a Board of Guarantors, especially one composed of 75% strangers.
Normally, a personal guarantor is only required in the formation of a corporation if the corporation has no assets, in order to ensure payment of debts. However, not only is the seminary property the biggest archdiocesan asset of all, it is owned free and clear by the good graces of a gift, and the many hours of
pro bono work by the legal counsel. (We already noted
previously how the gift was never intended to fund the creation of a Neocatechumenal seminary.)
In other words, there was ZERO need for a personal guarantor let alone a whole Board of Guarantors, which is why the legal counsel objected. And even then, why populate the board with people who don't live here? What's wrong with the many good, strong financial people of Guam who the archdiocese already has a long standing relationship with?
Of course, NOW we know. They were there to be in a position to do exactly what they did: get that property into their control so they can stiff any bishop who tries to get rid of the Neo and screw the rest of us
Judases who won't submit to their cult. And as far as we know, they may have already succeeded.
I have a helluva lot more to say about this! Meanwhile, the well-known and much respected Catholic Answers apologist, Jimmy Akin, had a very famous tiff in 2006 with the male half of this shadow couple. Read it
here. It's scary to think that this is the man who controls the Catholic Church on Guam.
