By Tim Rohr
Buried in Apuron's scripted drivel of May 7, 2025, is a not so thinly veiled reference of WHO Apuron (or more precisely, his puppet masters) is aiming at...once again.
Hmmm. I wonder who he is talking about? It's not hard. There is only one priest who Apuron has always been green with envy of. Apuron did everything he could to destroy him 10 years ago, and his lawyer did too.
In 2017, Apuron's puppet masters went to the Neo-rag "La Stampa" and did a hit piece on me and the priest.
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.
Really? We are supposed to believe that an Italian newspaper heard about our little ruckus in Guam and investigated? Nope. Somebody fed that story to them. And I think we all can guess who.
Note: The "trained lawyer" is quoted at length in the story, and the author of the story, Salvatore Cernuzio, is a Neocat:
https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BIDz_zSD5AP/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BIkh_goDHC7/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BiYyIzpDwWv/?hl=en&img_index=1
And by the way, there were no posts about Apuron until the Fr. Paul Gofigan thing blew up in July 2013 (not 2012). And even then, there were no "attacks," there were posts about what was already in the news. The only "attacking" would come from Apuron and his in-house freaks: Adrian and Edivaldo.
While I might be a real estate agent, I was NOT employed by Msgr. Benavente as one. I was managing the gift shop. But you see, Apuron's little puppet masters needed something to explain why stories about Apuron in JW, by Sep. 21, 2017, the date the La Stampa story was published, were getting tens of thousands of views and comments.
Apuron's puppet masters needed a motive for Tim Rohr to be doing what he was doing. So they made up the story about my being "involved in the projected sale of the seminary"...for the purposes of selling to a Chinese gambling interest. Here's more from the La Stampa story:
Everything began in 2002, when a group of Chinese entrepreneurs first laid eyes on the Accion Hotel in Yona, built as a Japanese resort in 2000 but which soon ended up in bankruptcy and set among 20 hectares of seaside property. When it first opened, the property was valued at between $60-80 million. David Lujan, their local lawyer, was authorized to offer $5 million for the site. The idea was to transform the hotel into a grand casino; this was part of a larger strategical project aiming at turning the island of Guam into a “Las Vegas of the Pacific” which would attract gamblers from China, Russia, Japan and Korea.
In later news stories, Apuron (his attorney actually) kept up the "casino" story, and, as you can see, in his little "I am innocent" speech of May 7, 2025, Apuron returns to it.
This is not about Apuron
Apuron knows he's guilty as hell. The Vatican said so. The pope said so. The new archbishop said so. So, as I have continued to infer, this is not about Apuron. This is about fixing the black eye the Neocats got here in Guam. No seminary in the Neocat world had ever been closed...until it was closed by Archbishop Byrnes (and you see what they did to him).
It's a long shot at this point for the Neocats to ever restore a seminary in Guam, however, to the rest of the world's bishops where they are and where they are trying to expand, they need a story to explain what happened in Guam.
So even though they'll never restore Apuron, they can keep going with the story about how he was railroaded by "Tim Rohr and his associates" who "orchestrated" a conspiracy against poor Apuron which led to the closing of their seminary and all the bad press.
Never mind that Vatican sent a delegation to Guam to directly investigate Apuron. Never mind that the court of the First Instance, a Vatican tribunal, found Apuron guilty. Never mind that the court of the Second Instance, an appeal personally overseen by Pope Francis, upheld Apuron's guilty verdict. Never mind any of that. "Look over here. Look at us. Look at all the pretty things we are doing." That's what they are saying to the bishops. And you can bet they are playing up the voluntary dismissals as a verdict of "innocent."
Trashing Tagle
We know that they are doing this because the La Stampa story was recently repeated in a story that was curiously aimed at preventing Cardinal Tagle from ascending to the papal throne: "Tagle, the cardinal who loves casinos." The date says everything: May 6, 2025. One day before Apuron took to the cameras to repeat his casino theme and one day before the conclave convened.
When you read the Tagle story, you will see the coordination between whoever was behind that story and Apuron's references the very next day to a certain priest and this priest's alleged connections to "powerful people and corrupt regimes." Apuron had not said this before. But in his May 7 victory speech, it comes at the very end and most pointed part of his talk. He - or rather his handlers - is aiming at someone specific. And for a reason.
But why are the Neocats shooting at Tagle?
Two reasons. One, Tagle hugely embarrassed them back in 2014 when the Neocat puppet masters were shouting about how their "initiators" (Kiko and Carmen) had been invited to Manila by Tagle. It, like everything they do and say, turned out to be a lie. And a letter, personally written by Tagle saying so, showed up on JungleWatch in a story titled NOW CLICK HERE.
The attack on Tagle by the Neocats is easy to trace. I just did a stat search on JW for the most viewed posts in the last 90 days, and guess which one is Number 1?
Really? Over 1000 views of an 11 year old post? Oh, and then suddenly a hit piece on Tagle one day before the conclave...with a reference by Apuron the very next day?
It's well known (in some circles) that Apuron hated Tagle. Back in the day,Tagle was just a young priest leading retreats for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Agana in Tagaytay, Philippines, a place that became immortalized on JungleWatch after Apuron, at a retreat there in May 2014, talked filth about Fr. Paul. See TANGO IN TAGYTAY.
Back to Apuron v Tagle
Tagle was a young priest when Apuron and the boys first started going to Tagaytay for their annual retreats. And of course Apuron was a high and mighty Archbishop, but also a red-hat (Cardinal) wannabe. And Tagle beat him to it.
Worse (for Apuron), Tagle and Msgr. Benavente became friends. That's because that's what Msgr. Benavente does: make friends. And he makes friends because he's friendly. Apuron didn't make friends because he wasn't friendly.
But on to the second reason. Had Tagle ascended to the Chair of Peter, there's a good chance Msgr. Benavente, might have gone along with him in some capacity. And that would make Benavente harder to shoot at. And they desperately want to shoot at him...and me.
More to come.
Here's Cardinal Tagle's letter:
I wonder if the major stakeholders of the Bank of Saipan - the Calvos - know that they were trashed by name in the viral piece that came out the day before the conclave? They might want to have words with the "trained lawyer".
ReplyDeleteI would think so too. Thus Apuron's reference to "powerful people and corrupt regimes." The timing of the hit piece on Tagle was perfect. The hit piece comes out on May 6 and Apuron comes out on May 7. There is only one person who knew the timing of all the pieces.
DeleteWell, don't forget about Giuseppe Gennarini and Cardinal Fernando Filoni. Both are likely to have closer connections with Italian journalists than does our trained lawyer. And both have possible notices. Filoni was cited in the La Stampa piece.
ReplyDeleteYour readers probably know that Gennarini leads the Neos in the US and Filoni, a strong supporter of the Neos, was replaced by Tagle at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples - in large part because of Tagle's support for the disastrous Accords with China (and Filoni's opposition).