Thursday, April 26, 2018
ALL THE BEST TO VICTOR
On May 17, 2016, the Umatuna posted a story about the upcoming ordination of 4 transitional deacons (a step towards the priesthood) who were the product of Guam's Redemptoris Mater Seminary, which, as we have long since learned, was established to form priests "following the life and practice of the Neocatechumenal Way" (RMS Articles of Incorporation, Art. III).
The 4 seminarians who were supposed to be ordained on June 4 were: César Javier Izaguirre González (from Nicaragua), Kenneth Paul O’Reilly (from Ireland), Preston Daniel Peredo Perez (from Guam), and Victor II Luna Vitug (from the Philippines)
On the same day of the story, May 17, 2016 (providence??), Roy Quintanilla became the first person to publicly allege that then-Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron had molested him in the 1970's when Apuron was the pastor of the parish in Agat and Quintanilla was an altar boy.
The ordination of the deacons, per the May 17, 2016 story, was set for June 4. But by June 4, 2016, Apuron, apparently spooked by this lone allegation, had already "skidaddled out-a-here" and had run to Papa - where he crashed a papal receiving line - as caught on film by a Vatican photographer:
Two days after the ordination of deacons was supposed to happen, Apuron would do a video-selfie-address, with the grand Basilica of St. Peter's in the background, and assure us that all was well, and that he had merely been paying the pope a visit to request the appointment of an apostolic administrator while he exonerated himself to Papa.
....we can clearly see why Apuron was spooked after one, little, measly 40 year-old allegation from a guy who hadn't lived on Guam in decades.
Nevertheless, the reality was, that with his midnight flight "out-a-here," there was no bishop to ordain the 4 deacons. And with the arrival of Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai on June 7, 2016, the same day that Walter Denton came forward with his bombshell allegation of RAPE...
....the ordination was given the kibash.
However, at least one of the four who was supposed to be ordained on June 4, 2016 by the former Archbishop Apuron, has finally found his way to ordination. Victor Luna Vitug II was ordained by Cardinal Sean O'Malley in Boston this past April 20.
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