ONE MORE SIGN FROM HEAVEN

By Tim Rohr

I am doing research for my book: Orchestrated: How a blog and the laity took down an archbishop and exposed the largest clergy sex abuse scandal, per capita, in the whole Catholic world, and I am coming across many things that have more meaning today than they did ten years ago, when most of those events occurred.

One of those things was this statement by then-Vatican-Appointed Apostolic Administrator, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai at a press conference on July 27, 2016:

I also specifically recant and retract all statements implying or suggesting that Mr. Rohr was part of a conspiracy involving an improper and clandestine real estate transaction, or that he had any improper motives in raising questions about the financial matters of the Archdiocese.

+Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, SDB, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Agana, Press Conference, July 27, 2016 [LINK]

I didn't pay much attention to this statement at the time. I was pretty sure Hon was only trying not to get sued, and moreover, probably trying to calm the building resentment against himself for initially making light of the allegations against Apuron which had brought him to Guam in the first place. 

I am quite sure that I was right then and I am right now in my assessment. However, in hindsight, and given that after Apuron was found guilty by the Vatican, Hon's public exoneration of myself, has more meaning.

After his Vatican conviction, Apuron had publicly claimed that, on appeal, he would prove his innocence by proving that he was a victim of a conspiracy by "Tim Rohr and his associates" who Apuron alleged to be conspiring with a Chinese gambling concern to oust Apuron (famously against gambling), acquire the Yona Property (the RMS Seminary), and turn the place into a casino. 

It almost worked. Apuron was found guilty by the Vatican on March 16, 2018. Three weeks later my name and my face was on the front page of the local news for a full week, branded as a wife-beater and sexual molester of my own children. Apuron's attempt (with the help of the Neocats) to "prove his innocence" by taking me out, had begun. 

(By the way, the media never cared to get the facts, they just ran with the story. One news platform, the Pacific Daily News, was the only local media that had the integrity to ignore this trash. One day, I will tell more of this story.)

I would survive, and even prosper, but their lies (Apuron and the Neocats) would wreak untold and permanent damage on my family, especially my youngest children.

I did take some solace, however, in the date Apuron was found guilty: March 16,  Rome time. In Guam, it was March 17. March 17 is the Feast of St. Patrick, the patron of Guam's Neocat Redemptoris Mater Seminary, which had been at the center of so much of this hell. 

It was also the same day Luis Camacho had been arrested on an Agat beach three years earlier. 

I took the date as a sign from heaven that I had done the right thing. And, as of today, I take my rediscovery of this 2016 exoneration as another sign. None of that conspiracy crap was true. And every Catholic on this island, and all over the world for that matter, should understand just how far the Neocats and the dirty bishops in their clutches will go to save themselves...and ruin you and your family too.

Oh, one more thing. July 27, the day I was exonerated, by a Vatican-Appointee, no less, is my birthday. One more sign from heaven.