By Tim Rohr
In QUESTIONS FOR THE ARCHBISHOP (Feb. 20, 2026), I asked how two itinerant catechists (David and Maruxa Atienza) and a “priest of this archdiocese,” Fr. Alberto Salamanca, are in a position to guarantee a debt of $800,000 and projected to be millions.
Of course, there was no answer from the archbishop. The archbishop, only recently appointed to serve in the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, an appointment much celebrated in the media, has a problem communicating just about anything important to the faithful in his own diocese.
But that's no surprise. Guam is only a stepping stone to a desk job at the Vatican for Jimenez.
He has also communicated NOTHING relative to the appeal supposedly initiated by the sometimes-priest, Fr. Luis Camacho, after being publicly embarrassed (Jimenez, that is) for jumping the gun and being totally wrong about Camacho's defrocking.)
Connecting the two things, it was at Salamanca's parish, Asan, wherein the "appealing-priest," Camacho, appeared front and center on the altar at a separate Neocat Easter Vigil.
Jimenez, the new appointee to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications, has also communicated NOTHING regarding the Neocat's blatant disregard for the moratorium on the founding of new communities, imposed by the late Archbishop Byrnes and ratified by the former Apostolic Administrator, Fr. Romeo Convocar.
Jimenez, the new appointee to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications, has also communicated NOTHING about the Neocat corporation, RAINAN I LANGET, which owns and operates its own Neocat place of worship, and is accumulating millions of dollars in assets.
Jimenez, the new appointee to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications, has also communicated NOTHING, well, nothing much at all about anything...though he did find time to campaign for "Josh and Tina."
But back to Salamanca and his personally guaranteeing an $800,000 loan. How does a priest in this archdiocese do that?
Archbishop Jimenez. We are waiting for your answer. On at least this.
P.S. We know the answer. We're waiting to hear if the new appointee to the Vatican Dicastery for Communications knows...and will communicate.
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ReplyDelete@ Tim Rohr: Don't you have an " UnderCover" agent in the Chancery or Clergy member to get the answers for you? Since apparently the Archbishop is ignoring you!😳🤦🏻
ReplyDeleteHe's apparently ignoring everyone else, too. But no matter. His silence is the answer.
DeleteUnder Canon 285 §4, a priest is strictly forbidden from acting as a financial guarantor for a loan, without his Ordinary’s consultation. The Bishop’s refusal to address this violation suggests one of two things: either he authorized this breach of clerical discipline, or he is complicit in it.
ReplyDeleteBy failing to enforce the mandatory penalties required by Canon 1393 §2 for grave financial offenses, the Bishop is not merely being "silent"—he is actively shielding a violation of universal law. Furthermore, for the Vatican to appoint this same Bishop to the Dicastery for Communication while these serious financial and Neocatechumenal issues remain unanswered is a staggering irony.
It appears that Kiko’s influence has successfully swept through the Vatican, prompting officials to turn a blind eye to the canonical violations of their patronizing Bishops. The Gospel warning rings true here: "If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:23). This spiritual and legal blindness among Kiko’s men at the Vatican represents a total collapse of accountability and a betrayal of the Church’s own laws.
Well said. The Kiko's here in Guam have always operated with impunity. They do whatever they want, wherever they want, and whenever they want. Under Apuron, it was understandable. They had him in their back pocket. He was a rubber stamp in return for shelter should his sex abuse history ever cause him trouble. Of course it did. And they took care of him as promised. Jimenez is similarly compromised, maybe not with sex abuse, as Apuron was, but the Kikos have offered him something, probably advancement to Rome, if he behaves. Nothing else explains this. No surprise to many of us though. We knew this when we first hear of his appointment.
DeleteI have wondered about Archbishop Jimenez's appointment to Guam. In my view, it would have made more sense if Fr. Romy Convocar, elevated to bishop or archbishop, remained to oversee and lead the archdiocese since he did so in Archbishop Byrnes' (RIP) absence and so was already well acquainted with all the issues and problems of this archdiocese. Why the "swap"? Was it simply a matter of the difference between a bishop and an archbishop? Excuse my ignorance; just had to ask.
DeleteIf we have learned anything over the last 10 years in this diocese, it's that if things don't add up, look to the Kikos.
DeleteHe could be practicing Synodality... Since we are ALL "Journeying Together" Regardless if youre NEOCAT, Legion of Mary, Knights of Columbus or Christian Mothers
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