NCW Priests Ordained at RMS Guam
1. Fr Alberto Salamanca.
2. Vincenzo Acampora.
3. Fr Michael Jucutan.
4. Fr Jason Granado.
5. Fr Krzysztof Szafarski.
6. Fr Edwin Bushu.
7. Fr Harold Colorado.
8. Fr Julius Akinyemi.
9. Fr Pedro Durango.
10. Fr Antonino Caminiti. (Deceased)
11. Fr Luis Camacho.
12. Fr Aurelius Stoia
13. Fr Miguel Angel Pardo
14. Fr Julio Cesar Sanchez
15. Fr Francesco Asproni
16. Fr Edivaldo Oliveira
17. Fr Fabio Faiola.
More than half these priests have never really in a Guam parish. Is that why Byrnes decided to close the Neo seminary?
ReplyDeleteRMS was never a "seminary FOR Guam," as we were told. Right there in its incorporation papers it clearly stated that RMS was incorporated to train priests in the Neocatechumenal Way. And the NCW is an "itinerary," thus the priests formed in the RMS were intended to be "itinerants." That's the very opposite of a diocesan vocation which call for its priests to be stable and ordained for the service of a particular diocese - not to roam the world.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in order to raise the many millions of dollars needed (at one point the estimate was 17k per year per seminarian, and that didn't include the property or its maintenance), RMS needed to pretend to be a seminary "for" Guam so that we would pay for it.
There were other reason why Bynres closed it, one of which was there never was the academic infrastructure for a real school, let alone a seminary.