I SHALL PRAY FOR GUAM

It's been a few years since THE POPE'S EXORCIST hit the big screen, but it's worth reminding ourselves that there are bad guys among us and at least Russell Crowe is praying "for Guam." 😂 

GOOD NEWS!

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Good news! According to the 2024 abortion report - as compiled by the Department of Public Health and Social Services Bureau of Vital Statistics - no one identifying as Chamorro (the report uses this spelling) procured an abortion in 2024.

That’s good news because between 2008 - when The Esperansa Project began requesting the reports - and 2017, the last full year an established abortion practitioner practiced in Guam, women identifying their ethnicity as Chamorro accounted for 1,502 abortions - about 60% of the total.

After the last abortion doctor retired in 2018, no local doctors were willing to openly offer abortion services, so there wasn’t much data for a few years. However, that changed a couple years ago when two doctors in Hawaii got Guam medical licenses and now do chemical abortions via teleconference and mail-order abortion drugs.

A Freedom of Information Act request to Jayne Flores, Director of Bureau of Women’s Affairs, turned up documents demonstrating that Jayne (and presumably her boss) actively recruited the Hawaii physicians to abort Guam babies, and beyond that, to initiate a lawsuit against our own government with the help of the ACLU.

The two doctors are Shandhini Raidoo and Bliss Kaneshiro, and their services are advertised on our taxpayer funded Bureau of Women’s Affairs website. The medical practices of Raidoo and Kaneshiro are private businesses and they are getting free advertising thanks to Jayne and our tax dollars. What a deal!

Moving on.

The thrust of the suit from these two doctors was to get rid of Guam’s in-person counseling requirement for women seeking an abortion. The Guam District Court initially ruled in favor of Jayne and her abortion friends, however, the Ninth Circuit vacated the District Court ruling and upheld Guam law.

The short of it is that these doctors can oversee chemical abortions in Guam from Hawaii so long as women seeking abortions get the required local counseling first. According to the 2024 report there were 36 abortions in Guam but no information about who is providing the required in-person counseling.

Meanwhile, whoever is providing the counseling is very probably counseling local women to identify their ethnicity as “Pacific Islander” and not “Chamorro.” This appears to be the only explanation for how Chamorro abortions went from 60% of the total for at least a decade down to nothing, and Pacific Islander abortions, since 2017, jumped 625% and now account for 80% of the total.

The dramatic shift in the ethnic numbers appears to be a response to the increasing cries of “Chamorro genocide” by myself and others. What else can it be called? According to census numbers, Chamorros account for only 30% of Guam’s population, yet the abortion reports, at least up until the latest report, show Chamorros accounting for 60% of all abortions.  

So, the response to our cries of “Chamorro genocide” from the pro-aborts appears to have been “stop checking the Chamorro box and just check Pacific Islander.” And voila! No more abortions of Chamorro children.

This is rather sad and laughable given that the biggest public promoters of abortion are also the biggest public promoters of distinguishing the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chamorro from the generic “Pacific Islander.”

Even the U.S. Census makes this distinction: “In 2020, Guam’s population was 153,836…The Chamorro population was the largest detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander group.”

However, when it comes to abortion reporting, or at least now in 2024 and presumably going forward, suddenly the Chamorro is just a “Pacific Islander.”

Why do they want to hide? Didn’t our governor and culture warriors like Michael Bevacqua preach to us about how abortion was and is a venerable cultural practice and in fact a demonstration of a Chamorro woman’s “symbolic societal power?”

Quoting Bevacqua: “[W]omen in Guam were more than merely vessels for their communities—they were empowered to make decisions about their bodies and families…we see clear matrilineal/matrifocal dimensions, where lineage and symbolic societal power resides primarily with women…research has also found evidence dating back to the 18th century showing that women in Guam…have utilized a variety of methods to induce miscarriage or end their pregnancies, as well as to use birth control and other methods to control their fertility.”

Given that as of 2024 the number of abortions for Chamorro women was zero, women in Guam are apparently no longer interested in asserting “symbolic societal power” by exterminating their own offspring. They’re leaving that to the “Pacific Islanders.”

Tim Rohr has resided in Guam since 1987. He has raised a family of 11 children, owned several businesses, and is active in local issues via his blog, JungleWatch.info, letters to local publications, and occasional public appearances. He may be contacted at timrohr.guam@gmail.com     

WHY HIDE THE CHAMORU?

 

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Of the women, 81%, or 29 out of the 36 women, identified themselves as Pacific Islander.

O’Mallan, however, pointed out the report does not break down ethnicity further.

“How many of that are CHamoru and how many of that are outer island people? It’s not distinguished there. So, that’s one of our concerns,” she said.

MY NOTE: It's "interesting" who we want the CHamoru to NOT be lumped in with "the rest" of "Pacific Islanders" in just about everything, except for when we count abortions. Why hide? 

Governor Lou Leon Guerrero, her abortion lieutenant Jayne Flores, and columnist Michael Bevacqua have publicly bragged about how abortion has a special cultural heritage in CHamoru history. But now they're hiding it? Why? 

The previous abortion reports always distinguished the CHamoru as its own ethnicity, and reports showing the CHamoru as the leading procurer of abortion should make the above named people proud. Right?

In any event, we can solidly assume that the ratio is the same.

BTW. The U.S. Census distinguishes Chamorro (CHamoru) from other Pacific Islanders.

Demographic Characteristics

In 2020, Guam’s population was 153,836. The profile released today provides demographic characteristics about the population, including information on racial and ethnic composition.

• The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population was the largest race group, with 70,809 people identifying as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone. Overall, 83,368 people reported Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone or in combination with another race group, such as Asian.
  • The Chamorro population was the largest detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander group.
    • In 2020, 50,420 people identified as Chamorro alone with no additional detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander group or race group.
    • In 2020, 63,035 people identified as Chamorro alone or in any combination with another detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander group or race group, such as Pohnpeian or Asian.

COMMENT ON WHY THE NCW IS A CULT

The following is a comment posted on JW today on a post from 2017 titled TESTIMONY: WHY THE NCW IS A CULT. (The comment has been edited into paragraphs for easier reading.)

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "TESTIMONY: WHY THE NCW IS A CULT.":

I can attest and support this experience to be true and accurate. As well I was in the NCW for many years and faced many of the same challenges and issues on a different level. It is very secretive, a lot of psychological abuse targeting on younger individuals “the youth” especially those with difficult backgrounds “histories”: domestic violence, alcohol abuse, substance abuse, parental abuse, parent separation, psychological issues, low self esteem, unique backgrounds and pasts “the history”, and other aspects of human suffering to mold them into their own way of thinking. 

The NCW also has developed a weird European accent as well: fashion of dark clothes, growing the beards out, glasses like the creator of the NCW. As well a fond liking of Judaism such as speaking very fondly on occasion on the Jewish faith, wearing of the Jewish Star of David for jewelry, Which is contrary of Christianity and considered heresy to the Christian Faith and Doctrine. 

The NCW in my personal experience is very manipulative to controlling the family dynamics. Anyone who thinks or goes against the rules of the NCW is treated as an outsider and discarded. Their defense is also written in this person’s experience that they refer to the Bible of the person “Rejecting God” which is another heresy and misinterpretation of scripture and the teachings of Christ. 

The last and final point I’d like to make which in my defense is the most dangerous of all the things is that the NCW teaches that if you are not in the way you don’t love God because you don’t want to do “God’s Will” which “You Don’t have Faith”, and if you are not in “The Way” you will be lost. Which is the biggest mistake to say which can lead people astray from the true teachings of Jesus Christ, His Love, Mercy, and True Will for every person. And depending on the circumstances of the person could lead to their self destruction of their faith, their life, their loved ones, their future, and overall wellbeing. 

For someone to say this means all those who do not participate in the NCW is lost and therefore doomed. Therefore those who have been baptized and are not in the way are lost, meaning the Mission of the Son of God was a failure and a lie (Heresy) For the mission of Jesus Christ was to enter this World and to die for our sins so that there may be a hope that we may enter into Heaven through the teachings of Jesus. Rather than before to hell since before the resurrection and the death of Christ there was no chance of entering Heaven. 

Refer to the life of Christ in the New Testament (The Gospels). I encourage all who read this not to be filled with anger or to be quick to judgement but to consider what this individual is saying. I can tell you if you have any doubts or questions pray and ask for understanding because this individual speaks the truth. I pray whoever wrote this that the Lord helps you, guides you, and heals you with peace and understanding that this all was meant for a reason to educate others. God Bless. Remember Matthew chapter 7:15

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NOTE: The picture at the top of this post is taken from an article titled THE MISUSE OF JEWISH SYMBOLS

COMING UP

 

ABORTION REPORT-GUAM: 2024

Copied from the website of the Guam Pro-Life Committee:

The Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee has recently obtained the “2024 Abortion Report” from the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Guam’s Department of Public Health and Social Services. Guam law (10 GCA 3218) requires abortion providers to submit basic information about abortions committed on Guam to the government and for the government to produce and make available an annual report of those records.

Here is a summary:

• 36 chemical abortions were reported. All were voluntary, none were done “therapeutic”.
• All were performed by prescriptions issued by the Queen’s University Medical Group in Hawaii.
• In all cases the gestational age of the fetus was 11 weeks or younger.
• 29 out of the 36 mothers (81%) identified themselves as “Pacific Islander”.
• 26 of the 36 mothers (72%) were 23 years of age or older. 1 out the 36 mothers (3%) was a minor.
• 24 of the 36 mothers (67%) had previous pregnancies.
• 22 of the 36 (61%) mothers had other living children.
• 19 of the 36 mothers (53%) were married.
• 17 of the 36 mothers (47%) had a college degree or some college education.

One or more of the following is more likely than not to be true about a mother pursuing abortion on Guam: she is older than 23, married, was pregnant before or has other living children. Nearly half of the mothers had at least some college education.

Here is the report that you may download and view: 

APURON TRIAL:UPDATE

From the Minutes of Status Conference on Feb. 13, 2025.

PROCEEDINGS: Status Conference

 Parties informed the court that they reached an agreement for the deposition dates of off-island deponents which will be scheduled March 24-28, 2025, and March 31 through April 4, 2025. Parties agreed to do a check-in with Magistrate Judge Bordallo during the deposition days at 8:00 AM (ChST) with regard to any objections or discovery issues.

 Parties agreed to and requested for an extension for defendant to respond to request for admissions and interrogatories to February 21, 2025, and to extend the discovery motions deadline to April 30, 2025.

 Ms. Lujan Wolff to disclose to Ms. Terlaje the compensation agreement of her clients and to redact any other names other than her client. Ms. Terlaje to provide the names and contact information for defendant's canon lawyers to Ms. Lujan Wolff. Counsel shall exchange information by 12 noon on February 19, 2025.

 Court to issue order setting a further hearing date and deadlines. 

BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

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Unlike Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year, and the Fourth of July, all of which have identifiable origins, Valentine’s Day (like Halloween) is a holiday for no apparent reason.

Sure, there is evidence that St. Valentine was a real person who was martyred near the end of the 3rd Century. However, the Catholic Church has many saints and, but for St. Patrick, there is no secular holiday for them like there is for St. Valentine.

There is speculation that Valentine became associated with love and marriage because he was executed for secretly marrying Christian couples. And the phrase “from your Valentine” is said to have come from a note Valentine had written on the day of his execution to his jailer’s blind daughter whom he had healed.

No matter the origin of the holiday or the legend, February 14, which in 496, is the day Pope Gelasius declared as the day Valentine was martyred, has become the day we particularly celebrate “love and marriage.”

Today we take for granted that love and marriage go together, and in that order. But history doesn’t reflect this. Historically, marriage and children went together and love came later, if at all.

I am reminded of the lovely song in Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye asks Golde: “Do you love me?” Over the following verses, Golde avoids answering, saying (singing) that for 25 years “I washed your clothes, cooked your meals, cleaned your house, given you children, milked your cow…”

But Tevye insists: “But do you love me?” Finally Golde relents and responds “After 25 years…I suppose I do.” Then the two end in a sweet duet singing: “It doesn't change a thing, but even so. After twenty-five years…it’s nice to know.”

For most of history (and still in some parts of the world), marriage was about the survival of our species, not love. Our laws still reflect this reality.

A few years ago when Guam’s marriage laws were being challenged on the basis of “love is love” and we should be able to marry whomever we love, I did a study of the marriage laws in every U.S. state and territory, and the word “love” did not appear.

Here’s the relevant part of Guam’s law:

10 GCA § 3101. What Constitutes Marriage. Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of making that contract is necessary. Consent alone will not constitute marriage; it must be followed by a solemnization authorized by this Title.

10 GCA § 3206. Particular Form Not Necessary. No particular form for the ceremony of marriage is required, but the parties must declare in the presence of the person solemnizing the marriage that they take each other as husband and wife, or as spouses.

The phrase “or as spouses” was added after the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, but still no mention of “love.” So much for the argument “love is love.”

Even the famous case, Loving v Virginia, which formed much of the basis for the argument for same-sex marriage, never mentions “love.” (The plaintiffs’ name notwithstanding.)

The Lovings were a biracial couple who were denied married status in Virginia in 1967. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage between two people of different races could not be denied because marriage “is a basic civil right of man fundamental to our existence and survival.”

The Court did not spell out what “survival” meant because it was referencing a precedent case, Skinner v Oklahoma, wherein the Court spelled it out: “We are dealing here with legislation which involves one of the basic civil rights of man. Marriage and procreation are fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.”

Of course this is a reflection of what God himself says to Adam and Eve in Genesis 1: 28. Upon creating them “male and female,” God doesn’t say “go and love each other.” Instead he orders them to “be fruitful and multiply.”

So where does love come in?

It really didn't enter marriage until the advent of Christianity. Prior to Paul telling men to love their wives “as Christ loves the Church” (Eph. 5:25), a wife was nothing more than a man’s property.

So it is fitting that a day dedicated to “love and marriage” is founded on a Christian martyr, a Catholic saint, who lost his head for marrying Christian couples, even if it's only a legend.

Happy Valentine's Day. Be fruitful and multiply. 

Tim Rohr has resided in Guam since 1987. He has raised a family of 11 children, owned several businesses, and is active in local issues via his blog, JungleWatch.info, letters to local publications, and occasional public appearances. He may be contacted at timrohr.guam@gmail.com     

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SURROGACY: "A STEW OF CORRUPTION AND EXPLOITATION"

"Already surrogacy has led to incredibly corrupt and perverse practices. Also this week, perhaps too late for The Economist to take into account, Thai police and Interpol uncovered a human-eggharvesting scheme which kept three young Thai women in virtual slavery."

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GET YOUR ABORTIONS HERE!

As posted on the website of the Bureau of Women's Affairs, Government of Guam. 

It's what you're paying for. It's what you voted for. Twice.

The need for children is great, says The Economist: “According to one study published in 2006, there were around 1m parents in America who wanted to adopt a child, yet only 51,000 children were placed with agencies for adoption each year.” That’s obviously because about 950,000 American babies are aborted each year. If none of them had been aborted, perhaps all those parents would have been able to adopt a child. - SOURCE

 

WAITING TO BE DEPOSED

By Tim Rohr

With the recent news about the District Court Judge putting the squeeze on the attorneys involved with Apuron's personal case to "get this done," I am looking forward to a subpoena that I will probably never get. 

If anyone should be deposed in this case it should be me, since - per Apuron and his Neocat troops - I am the leader of the conspiracy that took him down:

Apuron said this climate, "shown by the local media, which hampered the work of the court of first instance, testifies to the presence of a pressure group that plotted to destroy me, and which has made itself clearly known even to authorities in Rome." - USA TODAY, April 4, 2019

"God is my witness; I am innocent and I look forward to proving my innocence in the appeals process," the statement read. - CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, August 28, 2018

The church meanwhile is also accusing Martinez of being part of a conspiracy or the "Rohr Group" to topple the archbishop. (KUAM, June 3, 2016. Also see Apuron's press releases here and here.)

In 2012, a blog called “Jungle Watch” was created online, attacking Archbishop Apuron and the Neocatechumenal Way, accusing them of manipulating the prelate and “colonizing” the entire Agaña diocese. The site is managed by Tim Rohr, a real estate agent employed by Msgr. Benavente and involved in the projected sale of the seminary. - La Stampa. Sep. 21, 2017 

The above is only a fraction of the number of accusations that were hurled at me by everyone from The Diana to La Stampa. 

The plan, of course, was to vilify and discredit me in order to exonerate Apuron. Well, now's their chance. I stand ready to be deposed. Meanwhile, the lawyers can read everything I know right here on this blog and especially summarized in detail in two series: ORCHESTRATED and HIGH DRAMA IN THE AOA.  

Let's do this, DIANA. Call Jackie and "Let's get this done." 

 

JUDGE: "LET'S GET THIS DONE!"

 Judge firm on former archbishop Apuron's September trial in Guam clergy sex abuse cases

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood is firm on a September trial of former archbishop Anthony Apuron in a handful of clergy sexual abuse cases and a defamation suit, even as the dates of depositions tentatively planned in Las Vegas have yet to be finalized. CONTINUED

WHY IS A LAY PERSON DOING THIS...

....at Bishop Baumgartner Memorial School, Guam? Who is responsible?

Feb. 11, 2025. The following is Tim Rohr's response to some questions that have come up in the comments. 

Lay persons are permitted to assist with the distribution of Holy Communion, however, even this permission is subject to the following:

“Extraordinary ministers may distribute Holy Communion at eucharistic celebrations only when there are no ordained ministers present or when those ordained ministers present at a liturgical celebration are truly unable to distribute Holy Communion.They may also exercise this function at eucharistic celebrations where there are particularly large numbers of the faithful and which would be excessively prolonged because of an insufficient number of ordained ministers to distribute Holy Communion”

ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS REGARDING THE COLLABORATION OF THE NON-ORDAINED FAITHFUL IN THE SACRED MINISTRY OF PRIEST

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/rc_con_interdic_doc_15081997_en.html

To emphasize that the Extraordinary minister is truly “extra” and not “ordinary,” the same document goes on to warn against “ the habitual use of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion at Mass thus arbitrarily extending the concept of ‘a great number of the faithful’”.

In the above incident, a lay person is not assisting with the distribution of Holy Communion, but processing with the Holy Eucharist and apparently leading a liturgical function. Moreover, he is dressed in the vestments of a priest when he is not a priest - which is no more allowed than to dress as policeman when you’re not a policeman. 

However, the real issue is not the actor in the video but those who permitted this at what appears to be a school function. On a larger scale, the real problem is the abuse of the permit for extraordinary ministers who are employed at seemingly every Mass even when there are not a “great number of the faithful” and ordinary ministers (priests and deacons) are readily available to help. This is wrong.